Kore Nordmann - PHP / Projects / Politics
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:51:57 +0200
:Revision: 		3
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PHP quality assurance tools
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:Description:
  Some of the most important tools for quality assurance in PHP projects are
  PHP_Depend and PhpUnderControl. In the future Qafoo will provide support
  for both, read on for details.

.. note::
    Qafoo has now been founded. You can find us at http://qafoo.com. We
    `provide consulting and training for high quality PHP software`__.
    Additionally we offer `support`__ for my / our open source producs, like
    Arbit.

__ http://qafoo.com/services/services.html
__ http://qafoo.com/services/support.html

Some of the most important tools for quality assurance in PHP projects are
PHP_Depend__ and PhpUnderControl__. In the future Qafoo__ - *passion for
software quality* will provide support for both. Last week `Manuel already
blogged about the support we will provide for Zeta Components`__.

PHP_Depend has been developed by Manuel for quite some time now and provides
you with all those well known metrics for PHP source code, like Cyclomatic
Complexity for methods / classes. The full list of calculated metrics is
quite extensive and some can be found in PHP_Depends `online documentation`__.

Those metrics are, and should be, used to detect defects in PHP projects early
and should be supervised constantly. For example the Cyclomatic Complexity
metric might point you to overly complex, hard-to-maintain, code
sections, which you probably should refactor. And we all know that less complex
code tends to be less bug prune.

We at Qafoo__ will not only provide support for PHP_Depend, but also help you
to use it in your projects and adapt the workflows in your development team to
make optimal use of the data provided by PHP_Depend.

Additionally there is PhpUnderControl__, which was the first major Continuous
Integration solution for PHP software. Manuel__ works together with me on
integrating CI in Arbit__, using his expertise in this area. Still, there are
many projects out there using PhpUnderControl and we are happy to provide you
with support for this, too.

For both projects, which are integral parts of the quality lifecycle of PHP
applications, we are also available to provide training, consulting and
further extend the software to your request. You can get in contact with us
by mail at `contact@qafoo.com`__.

__ http://pdepend.org/
__ http://phpundercontrol.org/
__ http://qafoo.com/
__ http://manuel-pichler.de/archives/91-Presenting-the-first-Qafoo-Service-Zeta-Components.html
__ http://pdepend.org/documentation/software-metrics.html
__ http://qafoo.com/
__ http://phpundercontrol.org/
__ http://manuel-pichler.de/
__ http://arbitracker.org/
__ mailto:contact@qafoo.com



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Trackbacks
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- Arbit? Service please! on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:41:02 +0200 in schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff
  
  It's only two weeks left, until Qafoo, the company by Kore, Manuel and me,
  will officially start. Time to reveal another topic of our service
  repertoire: Consulting, training, support and payed development for Arbit,
  your all round project tool of choice.


Comments
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- EllisGL at Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:34:22 +0200

  Why not Hudson for your CI?

- Daniel Del Rio at Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:02:15 +0200

  Thanks for the reference to PHP_Depend. I've heard of and tried
  phpUnderControl but never of PHP_Depend. I'll be playing with this soon.

- geld lenen at Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:24:56 +0200

  Thanks for this interesting article. Will check some projects out soon

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