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+ Anatomy of a Horde test suite

++ Introduction

The Horde Project has always had high standards when it comes to code  
quality. Of course these standards evolved with time and also with the  
progress the PHP community made. The code from  
[ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/imp/imp-1.0.0.tar.gz IMP-1.0.0 (1998)] didn't  
come with unit tests. And somehow it lacked classes. And there is an  
awful lot of code mixed with HTML. Somehow this looks horribly like  
PHP3.

Oh, it **was** PHP3.

Of course PHP development changed over time and so did the Horde  
project. Nowadays each and every commit into [http://git.horde.org our  
repository] leads to the automatic execution of thousands of unit  
tests written by the Horde developers and they check our code for  
failures. Night and day [http://ci.horde.org our continuous  
integration server] broadcasts the current test status to us in  
particular but also to anyone else interested.

With the release of Horde 4 the test suite structure of the Horde  
components available via [http://pear.horde.org our PEAR server] look  
all very similar. There are certain Do's and Don'ts and a lot of  
playground in between. Often the ``Horde_Test`` component is involved.  
So it makes sense to associate the overview on the anatomy of Horde  
test suites with this particular module.

++ Filesystem structure of a test suite

... to be continued ...