Everything is under control

To follow up on my last post, we've made the jump from Phing to CruiseControl and phpUnderControl. The reasons behind the change are :

• Phing didn't work well
• phpUnderControl works well !

To be constructive, I find Phing to be a nice piece of software, but the fact it's written in PHP, and that in a few places it has to includes stuff from our application defies a little the black-box testing concept - in particular, it broke the code coverage analysis, and all in all was a pain to set up.

On the contrary, CruiseControl and its patch phpUnderControl did roll quite nicely. I had to dig a little to make it work, tune the xml files here and there, but very quickly we ended up with a running setup.

I found that the documentation is not as good as Phing, but now, these tools are for grown men, we're suppose to find our way in it...!

Now I'm twicking phpCodeSniffer, and find myself having quite a lot of fun picking the rules to match our style. Next step: hook it up to SVN (will my developpers like that ?)...