My Symfony functional testing toolbox

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Claims a 46 minute functional test suite drops to about 6 minutes by running PHPUnit in parallel and adding isolation tools, reports running ~1,500 tests in that time. Uses ParaUnit plus a transaction wrapper strategy replaced by Doctrine Test Bundle to avoid reloading fixtures. Adds static analysis with PHPStan and Psalm, validator-on-preflush, fixture builders and Faker data, warns about truncate commits and container instance mismatches, and says the setup works and is fast and reliable.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 7:14THE TESTING PYRAMID
3. 10:10MY PYRAMID FOUNDATION
4. 27:07TESTING ENTITY VALIDATION (2/2)

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