Test-Driven Development has been around for a while now as more and more companies are using Agile or Extreme Development principles in their daily coding business. Many advanced web frameworks come with built-in support for some kind of testing tool or make it easy to integrate one into your setup. Today I would like to share my experience on getting started with TDD on PHPUnit. I will also show how to setup Code Coverage and Selenium.

Recently I stumbled across Octopress, a Jekyll based blogging framework. The first thing that grabbed my attention is that I can write my content in markdown. As I was always feeling frustrated when I had to use Wordpress’ editor I felt that it might be a good time for a change.

Even though I was never a prolific blogger I knew that it is mostly because of the fact that I have to spend too much time on styling and such things and time is gold. All I wanted is a simple, elegant way to share my ideas and thoughts.

First Steps

A blogging framework for hackers.

Despite of the motto, installing Octopress was as straightforward as possible and most importantly: quick. I just did what the documentation described and I was up and running in a matter of minutes.

Here I have to make a note that I’ve already had a working RVM managed Ruby environment installed on my Mac.