Quality Assurance in PHP Projects

It has been quiet on this website since we posted the last contributed chapter abstract in June and it is time to give you an update. But first, allow me to refresh your memory on the list of contributed chapters:

• Best Practices
  • TYPO3: The Agile Future of a Ponderous Project
  • Unit Testing Bad Practices by Example
  • Quality Assurance at Digg
• Servers and Services
  • Testing Service Oriented APIs
  • Testing a WebDAV Server
  • Testing Database Interaction
• Architecture
  • Testing Symfony and Symfony Applications
  • Testing the ezcGraph Component
• QA in the Large
  • Large-Scale Selenium-Based Testing at studiVZ
  • Continuous Integration with phpUnderControl
  • swoodoo: A True Agile Story
• Non-Functional Aspects
  • Performance
  • Usability
  • Security

As we only have a deadline for the German edition so far and since we received the majority of contributed chapters in English, Stefan and I are currently busy translating the contributed chapters from English to German in an effort to meet our deadline. We are currently looking at a release date for the German edition in late spring / early summer of 2010.

Once we have finished the manuscript for the German edition, we will start working on the manuscript for the English edition. Hopefully, this process will be much faster as we only need to translate a couple of chapters from German to English. We are hopeful that the English edition will be available not much later than the German edition.