Shipping Better Software Faster, and Having Fun Doing It
summary
Claims that test-driven development plus a decoupled service/repository architecture speeds delivery while reducing pain, demonstrated by a Ride Hailing kata implemented with PHPUnit with Doctrine backed by SQLite in-memory to rebuild schema per test and run fast unit workflows. Code uses Repository pattern and services/commands with clear interfaces so persistence can be swapped (polyglot persistence), enabling near-100% coverage on a large codebase (≈3,000 tests). Videos and GitHub repo show the end-to-end kata and that the approach works.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:36Taking Away Our Fun
- 3:29Better Code: Enablers
- 4:31Better Code: Patterns
- 8:19Web Apps: OOP Patterns
- 11:32MVC Sweet Spot
- 12:06MVC Limitations
- 13:16Framework De-Coupling
- 20:29Web App. Architectures
- 21:42Why TDD?
- 22:12Improving Code
- 22:39TDD vs Unit Tests
- 24:02TDD: Web Applications Challenges
- 24:48Web Apps TDD: Goals
- 25:34Wasting Time without TDD
- 25:44Web Apps: Time Wasted
- 28:39Web Apps: Desired Workflow
- 31:39Web Apps TDD: Covenants
- 34:09De-Coupled Workflow
- 37:15TDD Service
- 37:50TDD Workflow Advantages
- 38:16Web Apps TDD: Base Test
- 41:11Next Steps
- 41:43TDD: More Reading
- 42:25Web Apps TDD: Benefits
- 43:59Great Software & Agile Stack
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