PHP TDD Shopping Cart from scratch.

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So, I've finally taken the plunge again and started seriously looking into refreshing my dusty old brain cells about TDD and unit testing.

Over the past few weeks I have been re-reading various books, reading articles and watching video-casts by some of the leading names surrounding Testing, TDD, Design patterns and tackling legacy code, and the inspiration has finally got to me that I just need to tackle this head on.  Consuming a wealth of information about greenfield and brownfield systems and how to tackle them.

I have also revisited daily coding Kata's, taking 15mins in the morning or evening to tackle a simple Kata to get my brain in "test first" mode.

The array of books and information I have consumed has been immense and I'll probably re-read and watch everything again, and get a different perspective on things, although I guess the main way to learn is by doing, which is why I raked through the archives (then ended up password resetting) my github account to allow me to post updates to here with my personal coding ventures.  I have only hooked up tonight's work, but I do hope to get a few of my Kata's in there for people who haven't seen them before, as well as links to where you can find these for practicing yourself.

Tonight's project has been getting the basis of a shopping cart system up and running TDD style. So you'll see at my github account, I've literally written 3 tests and a few lines or production code.  There is quite a way to go, but I do hope to take time and regularly update and work on this as a reference for anyone who wants to follow along or help out.


Well enough typing for tonight, here are a quick list of links to some resources I've been consuming the past while.

Github - https://github.com/williamcameron/tdd-cart
Art of Unit Testing - http://artofunittesting.com/ and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Unit-Testing-examples/dp/1617290890/
Various Roy Osherove talks and videos on youtube.
Working Effectively With Legacy Code - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin/dp/0131177052
Refactoting Existing Code - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Technology/dp/0201485672/

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