Matteo Pescarin - Learning Yii Testing

Matteo Pescarin started his career as a filmsetter. He cofounded a digital agency in 1998 with Emanuele Tozzato and became an expert in Flash in 2001, giving talks and writing guides on it. He later decided to distance himself from closed source technologies and committed himself to open standards and open source, joining the Gentoo Channel Italia, an Italian-wide Linux User Group dedicated to the famous distro. He became passionate about HTML and XML-related semantic technologies, combining, once again, his passion for 2D graphics with programming.

Matteo moved to London, UK, in 2009 after getting a CS degree. While still working on LAMP technologies, he started learning and specializing on the project management and quality assurance side of work, where his major interests still lie.

During his spare time, Matteo pretends to be a world-renowned artist and a formidable cook.

I'd like to thank everyone that in some way or the other supported me. I'd also like to dedicate this book to my father, who helped me the most.

Tristan Bendixen is currently studying to get a master's degree in software engineering, having had programming as a passion most of his life. Throughout the years, he has worked as a developer on fairly diverse projects, ranging from commercial and corporate websites, over mobile phone apps, to regular desktop applications.

He continues to work as a software developer during his studies, on paid projects as well as some open source ones that he helps out with when time permits.

Jess Pea Cadena is a computer systems engineer who has loved computer science since he was a kid. His first experience in software development was in high school where he studied to be a computer technician. He fell in love with software so much so that he decided to study his major in Universidad de la Sierra, which is located in Moctezuma, Sonora, where he obtained the keys to grow himself and became a proactive IT professional in the area of software development.

Over the last few years, he has been developing web applications, most of the time working with PHP in the backend and with technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS in the frontend. His first job as an engineer was in eDesarrollos (http://edesarrollos.com), where he learned a lot more about the software development process.

When he's not tinkering with code, he could be learning something new or spending quality time with his girlfriend, Valeria, his family, and friends.

Many thanks to God for giving me the ability to live and learn in this amazing world. I am also grateful to the Yii framework community because it helped me to become interested in this beautiful framework. In the end, I want to thank my parents for always helping me with their best effort (Philippians 4:13 and Psalm 23:4).

Mark Katkov (https://github.com/Ragazzo) started developing for web in 2008 while working on a VoIP project. There, he introduced the first version of the Yii framework and used Codeception, Behat, and Mink for testing purposes, learning a lot about the tools and testing in general.

Since then, he has handled various projects from simple blog engines to complex enterprise systems, mastering his skills using both Yii 1 and Yii 2.

Currently, Mark is busy with enterprise e-commerce projects in the travel industry, which are developed and maintained according to TDD and DDD.

Apart from commercial jobs, he has contributed significantly to several open source projects, such as the Yii framework, Codeception, and Faker. Currently, he is helping the Yii team with everything that is TDD related.

I would like to thank Matteo Pescarin for sharing his great TDD knowledge, which is vital for Yii developers to make their projects better. This book contains a lot of useful information that can help beginners to not only find their starting point towards learning what TDD is and how it can help them, but also to master the TDD approach.

I would also like to thank Alexander Makarov (https://github.com/samdark), a Yii core team member, for helping us figure out which topics are especially interesting for people developing with the Yii framework.

Finally, thanks to Michael Bodnarchuk (https://github.com/DavertMik), creator of Codeception, for explaining how Codeception works internally and helping me out in difficult situations.

Samuel Liew lives in Singapore and is a full-stack web developer who enjoys producing solutions with interesting and challenging requirements. He has been involved with creating two proprietary content management systems using C#.NET/MongoDB and PHP/Yii/MySQL. His latest accomplishment is developing a microstock photography website (http://vivistock.com/) using the Yii Framework, which involves e-commerce transactions and implements heavy business logic.

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