Sebastian Bergmann has a new note today about the latest release of his pet project - PHPUnit, the PHP unit testing framework - version 2.3.

Today I released Version 2.3 of PHPUnit, which is an open source framework for test-driven development in any PHP-based code that automates unit testing and reduces the effort required to frequently test code while developing it.

In addition to some bugfixes, this release introduces a new assertion method, new API methods, and improvements to the Code Coverage, Test Skeleton Generator, and TextDox features.

The most notable improvement is that the standard testsuite loader now checks the test suite sourcefile for syntax errors before loading it.

Since there were some pretty bad problems caused when there were syntax errors in the sourcefile, having the loader run that check before doing anything else is a very wise move. So, if you're looking for a unit testing framework for your PHP apps, look no futher than the latest release of the wildly popular PHPUnit...