Safe
All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false (by thecodingmachine)
Infection
PHP Mutation Testing library (by infection)
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| 7 | 10 | |
| 2,305 | 1,981 | |
| 0.8% | 0.9% | |
| 0.6 | 8.5 | |
| 8 days ago | 15 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Safe
Posts with mentions or reviews of Safe.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-18.
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PHP libraries and tools
thecodingmachine/safe: All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false
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Oh boy here we go again…
There are workarounds with some third party libraries, but yeah, it's a pain.
- Which inconsistences of PHP annoy you the most?
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Any ideas about why json_encode would return empty for a request on local dev, but not empty on server?
- try not to use the built-in json_encode, as it doesnt have proper error handling. Use instead this: https://github.com/thecodingmachine/safe and Safe\json_encode()
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Native defer & errdefer
Not what you asked for, in modern codebases it's advised to use things like https://github.com/thecodingmachine/safe
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Use namespaced functions to replace native functions - github.com/rezen/proxyz
The goal of https://github.com/thecodingmachine/safe is different than proxyz. My goal is a method proxy that allows you to override or watch the behaviour of a function from the "global namespace" effortlessly.
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preg_last_error() and json_last_error()
Safe-PHP redeclares all core PHP functions (in a new namespace) to throw exceptions properly. I use this on almost every project now.
Infection
Posts with mentions or reviews of Infection.
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Who tests the tests? Mutation testing with Infection in PHP
Obviously, we can not generate mutants manually. For that purpose, there are mutation testing utilities. For PHP, we have Infection.
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PHP libraries and tools
Infection: PHP Mutation Testing library. Plugins: roave/infection-static-analysis-plugin: Static analysis on top of mutation testing - prevents escaped mutants from being invalid according to static analysis bitexpert/captainhook-infection: Captain Hook Plugin to run InfectionPHP only against the changed files of a commit
Infection: PHP Mutation Testing library. Plugins: roave/infection-static-analysis-plugin: Static analysis on top of mutation testing - prevents escaped mutants from being invalid according to static analysis bitexpert/captainhook-infection: Captain Hook Plugin to run InfectionPHP only against the changed files of a commit
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I created a package to encourage developers in my team to write tests. What do you think? Any feedback? Thanks!
If you want to enforce testing automatically probably the best option is to rely on mutation testing, using Infection. That doesn't just check that the tests cover the code, it checks that if the code was different to what it is then the tests would (usually) fail.
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Collecting line, branch, and path coverage with PHPUnit
IMO code coverage is a very flawed metric on its own. A high percentage doesn't guarantee that the tests actually test the right things, and it would be much more efficient if mutation testing was used (e.g. Infection). It still uses the generated code coverage reports, but only as a base for its own metrics.
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Am I writing the right kinds of (unit) tests? See below for an example. Thanks!
For your last edit - you can also add infection which will infect your code with other values, like if you expect a positive number, it will try and inject a negative number - and see what happens - does your code break everything or something. Also it will try to inject false where you might expect a true and many many other things, and yes you will get some weird results from infection, but its a good thing to look at, and atleast check the logs and see why the infection failed at a test.
- I'm looking for "complex" or "advanced" topics that don't get enough coverage
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Codewars Kata. It uses 100 random tests for a boolean.
The only one that I've used is infection for PHP.
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Verify your true code coverage by removing lines of PHP code, see if it affects PHPUnit results
That's practically a light form of mutant testing. Have you checked Infection?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Safe and Infection you can also consider the following projects:
PHP Dotenv - Loads environment variables from `.env` to `getenv()`, `$_ENV` and `$_SERVER` automagically.
Pest - Pest is an elegant PHP testing Framework with a focus on simplicity, meticulously designed to bring back the joy of testing in PHP.
Symfony VarDumper - Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable
rector-laravel - Rector upgrades rules for Laravel
Expose - A beautiful, fully open-source, tunneling service - written in pure PHP
php-mysql-engine - A MySQL engine written in pure PHP
phpstan-safe-rule - A PHPStan rule to be used with the thecodingmachine/safe package
ParaTest - :computer: Parallel testing for PHPUnit
Symfony Dotenv - Registers environment variables from a .env file
psalm-plugin-phpunit - A PHPUnit plugin for Psalm
Yo! Symfony TOML - A PHP parser for TOML
churn-php - Discover files in need of refactoring.