Kohana Unittest module has made testing in Kohana v3 easy and fun. Lysender wrote a cool, straight forward post about how to set it up and running. I'll just talk here about how I have set up database testing with Kohana Unittest for my personal use. Not saying "How to set up". Because it's obviously not the best way to do this.

They walk you through the creation of the testing process - making "setup" and "tear down" SQL files, creating a "runSchema" method in a test case class and the code needed to run those setup/tear down files to refresh the database so there's no side effects of multiple tests using the same database.

Dagfinn has a post looking at using the new closure feature of PHP 5.3. He compares using foreach for iteration versus array_map. "Interesting," he concludes, "but not necessarily better than conventional alternatives." I agree for that case. Consider instead, a more complicated operation that requires a setup and a tear down after.

Jeff's example proposes that, instead of duplicating code, you use a lambda function to handle the custom parsing of the data as needed and pass that into the "doIt" function in his example.