Hi there,
Thank you for participating in the workshop "QA for PHP projects". In order to ensure you have a great workshop experience we would like to ask you to prepare yourself so you can participate in the exercises.
This will ease the network of the venue and saves time to get started.
All exercises are made for PHP 5.5 or higher on a *NIX environment. If you run Windows or you don't have upgraded to PHP 5.5 or higher yet, please follow the instructions below to prepare a virtual machine we prepared for you.
To follow along with the exercises, two repositories are available on GitHub. The easiest way is to clone them directly into your workspace.
- phpqa-workshop: https://github.com/in2it/phpqa-workshop
- phpqa-testing: https://github.com/in2it/phpqa-testing
These instructions will clone them into your workspace.
cd /path/to/workspace
git clone https://github.com/in2it/phpqa-workshop.git
git clone https://github.com/in2it/phpqa-testing.git
If all is done properly, you will have now two directories:
- phpqa-workshop
- phpqa-testing
If you have renamed them into something else, please remember which labels you've given them.
*NOTE: you can skip this step if you run PHP 5.5 or higher on a NIX (Linux, Mac OS) system
Ensure you download the latest versions of VirtualBox & Vagrant and have them installed on your workstation you bring to the tutorial.
If you go into the phpqa-workshop directory you will find a Vagrantfile present, which is the configuration required to start the virtual machine using Vagrant.
Start up your virtual machine
cd phpqa-workshop
vagrant up
You will see it's starting to download the VM and starts to provision it with the required tools.
NOTE: in some rare occasions you see some failures to provision the VM
If provisioning failed the first run, you can initiate it manually.
vagrant provision
When the provisioning is done, you can SSH into the VM.
vagrant ssh
During the workshop we'll discuss a couple of tools which can be installed using Composer, the package manager for PHP. In order for you to follow along with the workshop and try things out yourself, we encourage you to install these tools as well.
Since both repositories require Composer, we install it in the workspace you've cloned both repositories in.
cd /path/to/workspace
Get the latest version of composer.
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Now install required development packages in both projects
cd phpqa-workshop/
php ../composer.phar install
cd ../phpqa-testing/
php ../composer.phar install
If there are specific topics you also want to see during the workshop, shoot me an email to [email protected].