Midwest PHP 2019
8 - 9 Mar 2019 at Radisson Blu

It's really tough getting that real first thing in the morning, but Matt did an excellent job. It was brutally honest and personal, but facts were also backed up by real, tangible data. Super important topic, and Matt knocked it out of the park.

Really great introduction to Behat, and makes it much more approachable than the last time I tried to play with it. Fine, Andrew, I'll give it another shot!

Great introduction to Behat, Andrew clearly explains the what, why and how.

I suggest in the future, running the first part of the presentation in full screen, seeing the browser and all the tabs etc is slightly distracting. When it comes to projectors, dark text on white background actually is easier to read as well.

Relying on conference wifi to download dependencies is a big risk, might be safer to have that stuff ready ahead of time.

I would love to see more info on how to write features and Behat code that will last, because I hear complaints all the time from people who constantly have to update their features as their UI changes or unrelated code changes.

Great talk! I learned several new things, and am inspired to do more testing. If you don't test, or like me, just sort of test, you need to attend this talk.

Very useful information with a few bad jokes. :) Good talk!

Good introduction to testing, learned a few annotations that I didn't know about, like @testwith. I read the title to mean that I've been testing wrong this whole time and that Steve would show the errors of my ways, not that it was meant for a beginner-level talk.

The majority of the talk was specific code examples and this is a good thing! But, there was some discussion of why doing the stuff matters / is worth my time and energy, like the basic truth that code is read much more than it's written, and if I want my code to be a success, it needs to be easily approachable to other programmers. The rule of three idea / not getting too abstraction-happy is also very relevant to me, thanks!

Great walk through of unit testing. Learned a couple new things, specifically setExpectedOutput and @group feature. So that's a int! Entertaining talk, speaker is very well prepared and informal. Which is good! Would have like to see more in depth on how to setup more automated testing. Like what are the tools, pros/cons. But maybe I misunderstood the topic.

Chock full of excellent refactoring tips and techniques with excellent, thoughtful reasoning.

Chock full of excellent refactoring tips and techniques with excellent, thoughtful reasoning.