Phix is a tool for creating and managing PHP components and tools and releasing them as PEAR packages.

I’ve pushed out Phix 0.16.0 this evening, with the following changes:

• phing build-vendor now removes the component’s own code from the vendor/ folder. (We build the vendor/ folder using PEAR, which installs the component into the vendor/ folder … sigh)
• An update to Phing changed the default behaviour of the <fileset> tag, breaking backwards-compatibility. I’ve updated our build.xml file to make the <fileset> tag revert back to its original behaviour.

To update your copy of Phix, please run:

pear upgrade phix/phix4componentdev


Any problems, please let me know.

What is Selenium?

• testing elements are (not) on the web interface
• users can't break out a certain flow on the web interface
• calculated values are correct after modification
• errors appear on screen when mistakes are made by users
• reported issues are valid

Why are they important?

Disclaimer

Setting things up

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