• Assigned modules per week will be validated against the PHP coding conventions available at http://www.sahana.lk/wiki/doku.php?id=dev:php_coding_convention.
• PHPCheckstyle(http://developer.spikesource.com/projects/phpcheckstyle) validation

Following tests will be done using PHPCheckstyle

• Test “noShortPhpCodeTag”: Tests and reports and error if a short php

code open tag is used.

• Test “noShellComments”: Tests and reports and error if there is a

shell/perl style comment (that starts with '#').

• Test “lineLength”: Tests for long lines and reports error if a

line exceeds the value of “maxLineLength” property. The default value of “maxLineLength” is 80.

• Test “docBlocks”: Tests that every function and class is

immediately preceded by a docblock. A property “excludePrivateMembers” can be set if you want to disable docblocks for private member functions.

• Test “controlStructNeedCurly”: Tests to make sure that every

control structure is included within a {} block, even if it is syntactically optional.

• Test “controlStructOpenCurly”: Tests for the location of the open

curly bracket for a control structure.

• Test “funcDefinitionOpenCurly”: This is similar to “controlStructOpenCurly” explained above. Except that this is for

function definition and the default value of “position” is new line (“nl”).

• Download phpcheckstyle from http://developer.spikesource.com/projects/phpcheckstyle

• Unzip the content to a folder i.e:phpcheckstyle

• Uncomment the following lines in the pear.cfg.xml file in config directory

  <test name="spaceAfterControlStmt"/>
  <test name="spaceAfterSemicolon"/>
  <test name="funcDefinitionOpenCurly">
    <property name="position" value="nl"/>
  </test>
  <test name="whiteSpaceSurroundsOperators"/>

• Issue the following command from the checkstyle home directory to generate the test report

php run.php –src 'PATHTOINCFILE'

• Open the generated HTML file using Firefox

• Reusing libraries
• Folder structure
• File structure
• Adhering to front controller

• Identify module dependencies
• Validate the dependencies in the code