Zdenek Machek - PHPUnit Essentials

Zdenek Machek is an experienced PHP developer, who has been working with PHP since the year 2000 and PHP3 days. He introduced software testing and PHPUnit to various companies, and used them on various small as well as large scale projects.

Zdenek wrote several articles and blog posts focused on Continuous Integration processes during PHP application development.

Currently, Zdenek leads technology standards and values across the organization, and also handles analysis, planning, and technical delivery of large scale, critical, and high performance systems for our most complex projects.

First and foremost, I would like to thank all the people who invest their time and energy in open source softwarepeople writing code, documentation, reporting and fixing bugs, and organizing meetings. They allowed PHP to become so popular and widely used. The same can be said about PHPUnit and all other related projects, which really transformed the way developers work and probably how the Internet looks and works today.

I would like to thank all the people who helped me and supported me through all my life. Especially, I would like to thank my family for their patience for all the hours, days, and years that I have spent in front of a computer screen.

I would also like to thank the people at Packt Publishing, who have been working on this project, for their valuable feedback and professional approach, as well as the reviewers who helped to improve the book with their excellent comments and suggestions.

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah has been into programming since 1998 with C, Visual Basic, Delphi, Perl, PHP, ASP.NET MVC, and Play. He currently heads the project division in Agriya (http://www.agriya.com/), where he oversees challenging web and mobile development projects, web software products, and lab initiatives. These days, he's more passionate about topics related to machine learning and REST-based SPA using Node.js, AngularJS, and upcoming frameworks.

So far he has authored two books:

When he's not in the office, he is mostly available at home nagging his wife and two children.

Azizur Rahman is a senior web developer at the BBC. Currently, he's working on the BBC Homepage project. He has a BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence degree from the University of Westminster, UK.

He joined BBC in late 2011 as a web application developer within the Future Media Knowledge and Learning department. While working on the Knowledge & Learning project (http://www.bbc.co.uk/education), he put his knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD) using PHPUnit into practice. In this large scale project, the development team also used Ruby and Cucumber for fully automated acceptance testing.

The Knowledge & Learning project's purpose was to bring together factual and learning content from over 100 existing BBC websites, from Bitesize, Food, Science to History, and place them into a single consistent user experience designed to make learning feel effortless and delightful.

After the successful launch of the Knowledge & Learning project, he moved to the Interactive Guides project (http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides). While developing Interactive Guides, he solidified and advanced his knowledge of TDD and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).

The Interactive Guides project took a different approach to presenting content compared to traditional web articles of TV and radio programs online. They organize video and audio, rich infographics, written summaries, and activities into stories that make the most out of BBC's interactive medium. Interactive Guides takes the audience through a series of steps that ask them to look at multiple perspectives of intriguing questions, always with the chance to reflect on the significance of the story at the end.

A firm believer in philanthropy, Azizur spends his spare time supporting philanthropic causes using his knowledge and expertise of open source technologies.

He serves as a senior web developer / IT advisor to ProductiveMuslim.coma website dedicated to Islam and productivity. A global team of volunteers with the sole aim to help the Ummah ("nation" or "community") become productive again!

The following is a quote by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) taken from http://sunnah.com/urn/1252420:

"The best of charity is when a [Muslim] man gains knowledge, then he teaches it to his [Muslim] brother."

In April 2014, he became an ambassador of STEMNET. As an ambassador, he uses his enthusiasm and commitment to encourage young people to enjoy science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You can read more about STEMNET at http://www.stemnet.org.uk.

Along with technically reviewing this book, he has also technically reviewed PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide , Packt Publishing .

His keen interest in open source software makes him a regular attendee at local technology user groups and wider open source community events.

Mauro Takeda has been working in the IT industry since 1999 when he faced his first legacy problem: the Y2K bug. Since then, he has worked with several programming languages, such as COBOL, Dataflex, C, Visual Basic, Delphi, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog, and Java with whom he has a relationship of over 10 years. His newer passion is functional programming.