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Reading Google Analytics data from PHP

1 Feb 2010

Google Analytics has become a important part of any web sites traffic analysis strategy. And with the release of the Analytics API people have been able to create custom reports and mashups for their organizations. Although no standard library is available from Google for PHP, some small and easy interfaces are available out there. In this post we will see how to access Google Analytics data using PHP using the GAPI library.

‘isset’ construct and multiple parameters

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30 Jan 2010

PHP programmers are frequently into using the various is_x group of functions: is_int, is_null etc. All of this functions take a single parameter which leads you to believe that other similar constructs take only a single parameter. Like the isset and unset constructs, which by the way take multiple parameters as shown below, which might help you save some keystrokes.

Adding custom commands to Selenium

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10 Jan 2010

In the previous Selenium posts we saw how to use the selenium IDE for testing web pages. In this post we will see how to extend the Selenium IDE by adding our own custom commands.

Selenium IDE offers many useful commands (often called Selenese) for testing purposes. You use this sequence of commands to create various tests. But many times these commands are not sufficient and you need to add your own custom commands. For example a reader recently requested on how to input unique email ids for testing. Of course you can easily do this using the Selenium RC server and a language like PHP or Java. But we want to accomplish this in the IDE itself.

Test dependencies in PHPUnit 3.4

Posted in: testing | ( 2 ) Comments

21 Dec 2009

PHPUnit has become the de-facto standard for unit testing PHP code. Now in version 3.4, it has added many new and interesting features to its repertoire.

Dependencies in PHPUnit tests

PHPUnit 3.4 now supports dependencies between different test methods. It allows you to execute a particular test ONLY IF the test that it depends on executes successfully. Take the following example (Listing 1.) where we test a linked-list class I developed earlier.

Creating win/win projects using Project Value Analysis

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17 Dec 2009

From a client’s perspective, the most important criteria when developing any new software is that it adds some ‘value’ to his company. Every software application has some financial and some intangible value attached with it. Without it there would be no reason for a client to invest in developing new software or for that matter, upgrading an existing one. The client has some financial goals in his mind when he proposes to develop some software. He plans to make some profit (financial or otherwise) from the development of the software. Whether the financial gains are immediate or peripheral is a different matter.

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Reading Google Analytics data from PHP

‘isset’ construct and multiple parameters

Adding custom commands to Selenium

Test dependencies in PHPUnit 3.4

Dependencies in PHPUnit tests

Creating win/win projects using Project Value Analysis

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