How to build a test suite from scratch

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Builds a functional test suite for a Phalcon app using PhpUnit and Phalcon integration, focuses on functional tests over E2E, uses real MySQL with per-test transactions and factories to seed complex relations, mocks external APIs with Mercury for API mocking, crawls HTML with Symfony DomCrawler, packages a Docker image close to production and runs pipelines that produce JUnit reports and deploy on merge, orchestrated via CI with GitLab Runner; current full suite runs about 10–15 minutes and is integrated into deploys.

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1. 0:00Building a test suite
2. 2:02Why we needed it
3. 3:50Framework and challenges
4. 6:20Choosing test types
5. 7:26Setting up functional tests
6. 10:12Integrating PHPUnit
7. 13:01Bootstrapping and dependency injection
8. 14:28Mocking API calls
9. 16:13Testing UI and assertions
10. 17:16CI pipeline with GitLab
11. 19:44Performance metrics
12. 20:31Key lessons
13. 21:24Q&A

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