Symfony 5 HttpClient and TDD Tutorial (Part 4)

[@parijke]

Awesome again Gary. Very high quality

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Cheers Paul...I appreciate it 🤝

[@ahmedesa6198]

great course keep on with such great courses

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Thanks Ahmed

[@TuckersValleyFurniture]

Was there a gap between part 3 and part 4? I feel like something got skipped, because it doesn't pick up where part 3 stopped. Are the videos labeled right?

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Seems strange that no-one has mentioned it before but I'll check it out. Thanks for letting me know Here's a link to the full, compiled course kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioDEaH19l7eqrM0

[@JohannesHeimbach]

Hey Gary, great tdd course! One question that I asked me was - why is your Fake not in the test namespace?

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Hey Johannes, cheers! That's a good question...The test namespace is probably a more suitable place but I just kept it bundled in with the real one at the time. But definitely put it in test if that's more logical for you.

[@adelhishem1]

Hi Gary, thanks a lot for this great tutorial, i personally find testing with tools provided by Symfony satisfying but i hear people talking about testing libraries like Behat and Codeception , I'm not quit sure when/if it is necessary to use such tools and feel a little confused about it. In a professional environment, is test libraries a must know for a backend developer? Thanks again for everything, the quality of your videos is outstanding.

[@GaryClarkeTech]

Hey Adel..thanks very much, I appreciate your support. For Symfony Framework..just stick with the built in test tools (which extend PHPUnit) because a lot of them have been written specifically to help you test Symfony components. For a PHP developer, I'd say that the only essential testing tool is PHPUnit. It's the standard and it's what other libraries such as Codeception are built on. Master PHPUnit and take it from there.

[@adelhishem1]

@@GaryClarkeTech Thank you Gary for your reply, actually I'm reading Mastering Symfony by Soahil S, in chapters where he talks about testing, he relys totally on libraries without saying if that's needed, good practice, or just a personal choice, i follow along with you and i find your code cleaner and straight forward, that's why i was confused, the book is not about PHP in general, it is specific for Symfony, thanks a lot again for your time and effort.