Gary Kovar's Incomplete Thoughts

Note Tag: laravel

  • Mutation Testing

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    gkovar

    Pest 3.0 is now available and the one feature I’m most excited about is mutation testing. I first tried mutation testing was with Infection PHP. It was not easy – and the results were horrifying. Using mutation testing I discovered my coverage of 85% was more likely in the teens. I fiddled with config to…

  • Laravel has a problem

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    gkovar

    The State of Laravel 2024 Results show a huge problem in Laravel. 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 all show 95.47% or higher of Laravel devs with a gender identity of male. That’s staggering – and I know tech is bad. Quick googling shows around 28% of people in tech are women. Less than 5% in the…

  • TDD & Reality

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    gkovar

    Laracon was earlier this week. I watched some of it. Pest PHP 3.0 is coming out soon. One heralded feature is mutation testing. And the demo was super cool. First, run tests that show 100% coverage. Then run the same tests with mutation testing to reveal you don’t have full test coverage. I used mutation…