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<page title="Overview of SimpleTest" here="Overview">
    <long_title>
        Overview and feature list for the SimpleTest PHP unit tester and web tester
    </long_title>
    <content>
        <section name="summary" title="What is SimpleTest?">
            <p>
                A <a local="unit_test_documentation">test case</a> looks like this...
<php><![CDATA[
<?php
class <strong>MyTestCase</strong> extends UnitTestCase {
    <strong>
    function testLogWroteMessage() {
        $log = &new Log('my.log');
        $log->message('Hello');
        $this->assertTrue(file_exists('my.log'));
    }</strong>
}
?>
]]></php>
            </p>
        </section>
    </content>
    <internal>
        <link>
            <a href="#summary">Quick summary</a>
            of the SimpleTest tool for PHP.
        </link>
        <link>
            <a href="#features">List of features</a>,
            both current ones and those planned.
        </link>
        <link>
            There are plenty of <a href="#resources">unit testing resources</a>
            on the web.
        </link>
    </internal>
    <external>
        <link>
            <a local="unit_test_documentation">Documentation for SimpleTest</a>.
        </link>
        <link>
            <a href="http://www.lastcraft.com/first_test_tutorial.php">How to write PHP test cases</a>
            is a fairly advanced tutorial.
        </link>
        <link>
            <a href="http://simpletest.org/api/">SimpleTest API</a> from phpdoc.
        </link>
    </external>
    <meta>
        <keywords>
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            Tools for extreme programming,
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            mock objects,
            junit,
            jwebunit,
            htmlunit,
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        </keywords>
    </meta>
    <refsynopsisdiv>
        <authorgroup>
            <author>
                Marcus Baker
                <authorblurb>
                    <para>Primary Developer</para><para>{@link mailto:marcus@lastcraft.com marcus@lastcraft.com}</para>
                </authorblurb>
            </author>
            <author>
                Harry Fuecks
                <authorblurb>
                    <para>Packager</para><para>{@link mailto:harryf@users.sourceforge.net harryf@users.sourceforge.net}</para>
                </authorblurb>
            </author>
            <author>
                Jason Sweat
                <authorblurb>
                    <para>Documentation</para><para>{@link mailto:jsweat_php@yahoo.com jsweat_php@yahoo.com}</para>
                </authorblurb>
            </author>
        </authorgroup>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
</page>
