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Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

You're reading from   Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7 Lumen, Composer, API testing, Microservices, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127746
Length 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. RESTful Web Services, Introduction and Motivation FREE CHAPTER 2. PHP7, To Code It Better 3. Creating RESTful Endpoints 4. Reviewing Design Flaws and Security Threats 5. Load and Resolve with Composer, an Evolutionary 6. Illuminating RESTful Web Services with Lumen 7. Improving RESTful Web Services 8. API Testing – Guards on the Gates 9. Microservices

Summary

In this chapter, we learned testing types, the importance of automated testing, and wrote API tests for our RESTful web service endpoints. One thing I again want to say here is that we wrote only API tests to keep our focus on our topic but unit testing is of no less importance. However, testing is a huge topic and unit testing has its own complexity, so couldn't be discussed in this one chapter.

More resources

If you want to know more about automated testing in PHP, then here are some important resources:

Test Driven Laravel (Video course by Adam Wathan) https://adamwathan.me/test-driven-Laravel/, however this is mainly focused on Laravel. But still, this will teach you important things.

Similarly, there is Laravel...

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