In March we're hosting a night about testing & debugging.

Wednesday 8th March 2017

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Behaviour Driven Development & Behat: Telling stories through code
Talk by Matt Brunt (45 minutes)

Stories? Scenarios? BDD? Are these just more words in the ever-growing list of jargon that developers have to know? Or are they something more important than new terms to memorise? In this session we'll look at how BDD fits into the software development work-flow, how to tell user stories through features, and how to automate them in Behat. These techniques will help to ensure you're writing well designed and tested software that focuses on what the users want from a system.

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Remote debugging with Xdebug
Talk by Tom Adam (35 minutes)

Are you using var_dump, echo and die for debugging PHP? Imagine how much easier your life would be if you could follow the execution of your code, see and modify variablesas your app was running. I'll be talking about configuring, using and avoiding the pitfalls of Xdebug for remote debugging.