Conference talk from Sebastian Bergmann, the creator of PHPUnit, on the dangers of "overmocking" as well as how to avoid them.

Adam Wathan screencast on creating your own test doubles.

Once in a while I run into a situation where trying to use a mocking library hurts the readability of my test. In this screencast, I walk through writing a custom fake to clean up the test and simplify my assertions.

Dredd is a command-line tool for validating API documentation written in API Blueprint format against its actual code. With Dredd you can easily plug your API documentation into a Continous Integration system like Travis CI or Jenkins and have API documentation up-to-date, all the time. Works to test API's written in PHP, Node.js, Ruby and Python. I've been using Swagger for API docs, but I'm looking forward to trying out Dredd + Blueprint in a future project.

Nodejs library to easily get screenshots of a responsive site at various resolutions; in your node script just specify the site and the size of screenshots and the directory to save the screenshots to.

This is a package to integrate PHP Debug Bar with Laravel. Adds a service provider and facade to use as a profiler which you can see results in the debug bar at bottom of your pages during development.

Jeffery Way, editor at Nettuts, is somewhat of a Laravel evangelist. In his talk at Laravel Conference 2013 he goes over how you can write more testable code, and how you can improve your unit tests.

• 5:40 - Intro to Laravel's handy generator Artisan to generate files, and a package he put together of even more handy generators, you can get it on github: Laravel-4-Generators.
• 10:55 - Using Dependency Injection to write more testable code.
• 13:30 - Smart type hinting with Laravel's IOC Containers.
• 18:45 - Intro to Interfaces using an example of injecting your database layer via an Interface implementation so your controller isn't bound to an ORM.
• 24:05 - Creating php unit tests.
• 28:40 - Using mock objects and the Mockery framework.
• 33:50 - Making tests more readable. I found this interesting; creating common assertions to simplify writing tests, so your more likely to write them in the future.