Enterprise grade PHP is becoming more and more prominant. Moving beyond the Web-Dev crowd PHP has gained its rightful place beside Active Server Pages, PERL and Java Server Pages. As PHP applications moved beyond simple server-side scriptingand into the enterprise, automated software testing will be become more important, especially for successful implementations of Agile software development methodologies such as Scrum.
Xdebug, an open source software profiler and debugger, seeks to be free and open source alternative to the Zend Studio. While free and open source are well and good, the cost of Zend Studio and the ROI makes me lean towards Zend Studio. On the positive, Xdebug, like Zend Studio, integrates into the Eclipse PDT framework nicely.
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