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[thePHP.cc] not only managed to explain us what’s wrong with the way we built software. More importantly they knew how to make change happen.

Steffen Behn, CTO, die kartenmacherei GmbH

We were faced with the hard decision whether we should implement a fundamental extension of our product inside the existing software system or whether we should start afresh on a greenfield.

In an audit lasting several days, the experts Priebsch, Bergmann, and Blankerts unerringly uncovered the shortcomings of our existing solution and discussed them in a way that was useful for us. Based on their findings we decided to start "from scratch". But properly this time — thanks to the support by the experts.

This decision paid off. We have created a sustainable software that is easy to extend thanks to making the right design decisions early on. Our new solution can be adapted to changing market requirements quickly. The experts helped us to a lesser extent with short-term solutions but rather by training the developers so that they can independently make the right decisions in the long-term.

Cornelius Suermann, CTO, BillSAFE GmbH

We had the pleasure of working with Sebastian and leveraging his expertise in PHP unit testing to train our scrum teams on tools for Quality Engineering.

Sebastian did an excellent job and we will leverage his services and know-how again in the future.

Oliver Ratzesberger, Senior Director Analytics Platform, eBay Inc.

Sebastian has been a great asset both in reviewing our PHPUnit codebase and in training our team. One area where he has been especially helpful is in helping new hires familiar with unit testing in other languages transition their skills over to PHP and PHPUnit.

Both our test infrastructure and our continuous integration system are better today because we had the benefit of Sebastian's input during the early planning and development stages.

Noah Sussmann, Test Architect, Etsy Inc.

We have chosen thePHP.cc because of their good reputation and we were not disappointed. With their competence they supported us in optimizing one of our applications and answered all our questions.

Thanks to Misters Bergmann and Priebsch we succeeded at making strategic decisions based on a technical foundation.

Nils Langner, Qualitätsmanagement — Online Systeme, Gruner + Jahr AG & Co KG

Sebastian's extensive knowledge of PHP, PHPUnit and associated software testing methodologies and his ability to customize the format of his training sessions to meet our company's specific needs allowed us to get the most out of our time with him.

The wealth of information we have gained from the experience has given us a solid foundation from which we can develop our code quality approach.

Kevin Howe, Development Manager, InstaClick Inc.

Sebastian's visit to Cornwall was the "finest icing on the most delicious cake" for the Grow Cornwall Agile programme. His two-day workshop and one-on-one expert consultancy was world class, enabling a range of Cornish businesses to improve their delivery of high quality web applications at a globally recognised standard using PHPUnit.

Belinda Waldock, Business Coach & ICT Specialist, Oxford Innovation

Sebastian's input and planning was very instrumental in helping us come up with an extendable framework that will allow us to make our API endpoints easily accessible.

This will be a big piece of the service layer that will drive our company's business for years to come.

Derek Smart, Director of Software Engineering, Payscape

We utilize PHP for many years. We have reached a point where we lacked clarity and comprehensibility in our code base and every change lead to a new error. We wanted to put an end to this.

This is why we invited thePHP.cc. They analysed our code, explained the foundations for better programming, and developed a custom framework for our applications together with us.

Thanks to thePHP.cc we achieved a future-proof structure and testable code.

Michaela Knie, Projektleiterin, Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG

thePHP.cc worked closely with our software development team to take a hard, honest look at what we have produced over the past few years. The result was our team's decision to raise the bar on the quality of code and product we deliver.

I was incredibly impressed by the energy level I witnessed during a week of workshops with Sebastian and Stefan. The positive feedback I received from my teammates only confirmed that the consulting engagement was a complete success.

Mike Depuy, Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce Marketing Cloud

While we had no doubt about the expertise of the thePHP.cc partners we had two reservations before we ordered their services: would such adept PHP experts be able to provide pragmatic advice that match our concrete situation? Is it worth it to bring in three experts at the same time?

We can answer both questions positively. They presented the results of their code review intelligible and thoughtful. They gave pragmatic counsel on how to act upon these findings as well. Three experts side by side ensure that one does not get a dogmatic individual opinion. Instead you experience "live" how a result / an opinion is developed in a dialogue.

Dr. Tina Dingel, CEO, Townster GmbH

The interesting presentation of the topics conduced the motivation of the participants. In addition to a theoretical introduction of the subject matter many concrete examples were provided. This allowed us to quickly integrate the approaches and practices presented into out projects thusly benefiting from the workshop. Mr. Priebsch was able to provide profound solutions for all of our 4com-specific problems and questions.

Dipl. Inform. Christian Koch, Teamleiter, 4com GmbH & Co. KG

In spring 2011 we had a two-day workshop with Sebastian Bergmann on the topic of test-driven development and software quality in PHP projects. Under his guidance we wrote our first tests and learned how to integrate this practice into our current and future projects. Since the workshop we have steadily increased our test coverage and have now, about nine months later, projects with a code coverage of more than 90%.

Stefan Queisser, Chief Technologist, ostec GmbH