While testing is absolutely necessary, I was talking about managing multiple instances of the framework across servers? Do people manually update each install? Does anyone have fancy scripts they can invoke that update (after testing)? I hadn't heard of XDebug, I will look into that too. Thanks! On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Alex Dean wrote: > On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Eric Cope wrote: > > Hello all, >> I write PHP using the CodeIgniter framework. They have new releases >> regularly and I spend several hours updating all of my sites to the new >> framework. Does anyone else on the list write code around a framework (it >> doesn't have to be PHP or CodeIgniter)? How do you manage framework updates? >> Thanks, >> Eric >> > > Have good unit tests on your code so you can tell what's broken after you > update. You can use the code-coverage features in XDebug and PHPUnit to see > where you might be missing tests. > > Recheck any assumptions written into any mock objects your tests use. It's > up to you to verify that a mock actually behaves like the real thing. When > the real implementation changes, but you don't update the mocks, you'll have > passing tests but your code is actually broken. > > alex > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >