High Code Coverage through extensive Unit Testing is the Holy Grail in software development. Theoretically, it would create an environment where the code could be debugged, re-factored, and extended while keeping a stable and overall clean system. Unfortunately, this is just about as elusive as the Holy Grail. So how can we do Unit Testing in the real world.

On his blog today Chris Hartjes has a new post about testing your Zend Framework application’s functionality that lives behind a Zend_Auth authentication.

Web applications nowadays use an increasingly distributed set of resources. Find out on Content with Style how we test our MVC applications that use web services in their models.

In his latest post on Content with Style, Pascal Opitz is writing about his approach to unit-testing Controllers in a Zend Framework MVC application.

A.J.Brown has published the first of a two-part series explaining how to write automated unit tests for Zend Framework applications. His article, which makes use of PHPUnit and Zend_Test in the context of a user account controller, also discusses creating seed data, setting authentication state and writing test cases.