Join me on an exciting journey through 30 years of PHP and 25 years of PHPUnit! As the creator of PHPUnit and a member of The PHP Foundation's board, I'll dive into the fascinating history of PHP and PHPUnit. Discover how these two giants have shaped the web development landscape, from PHP's humble beginnings to PHPUnit's evolution into a testing powerhouse.
Get ready for insights, anecdotes, and a look at what the future holds for PHP and its ecosystem. Let's celebrate three decades of Open Source innovation and collaboration!
I most recently presented “30 Years of Code, 25 Years of Tests: A Journey Through Code and Community” at the International PHP Conference on in Munich.
I am Sebastian Bergmann. I started writing PHPUnit in 2000 and still maintain it. In the same year I gave my first talk at a PHP conference. As a co-founder of thePHP.cc, I help teams in training courses and through consulting and coaching with everything related to PHPUnit, with quality gates for working with LLM-based coding agents, and with supply chain security.
I helped start the PHP Foundation and serve on its board. I have also represented the interests of Open Source at the European Commission and am active in the Open Source working group of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik).
Where you can meet me next is listed under events. The next dates of my training courses are in the training overview.
On , I will be in Frankfurt am Main at the PIMCORE Community Dev Days. There I will give the presentation “Speed is a byproduct of trust”.