Part 2 – Maintaining Code Quality

The aim of the second part is to enable you to constantly improve your projects and eventually maintain a consistently high level of code quality. It will provide you guidance on using state-of-the-art tools and technologies, which will help to reduce the necessary efforts to achieve this goal. Finally, we will present several best practices that will help you to work together with other developers on a clean and maintainable code base.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 7, Code Quality Tools
• Chapter 8, Code Quality Metrics
• Chapter 9, Organizing PHP Quality Tools
• Chapter 10, Automated Testing
• Chapter 11, Continuous Integration
• Chapter 12, Working in a Team
• Chapter 13, Creating Effective Documentation