Refactoring in PHP While Going Open Source. A Case Study

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Refactoring in PHP While Going Open Source

A Case Study ..

OXID eSales AGBerlin, 26. June 2009

Erik KortChief Software Architect

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OXID eSales AG

eCommerce Software… nothing else!

Located in Freiburg, Halle and Kaunas (Lithuania)

50+ employees… more than half PHP-Developers

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About Me

Key facts

OXID eSales AG Chief Software Architect

15+ Years of experience in Software Development

Wide field:

– from Petrochemical industries to eCommerce– From mobile devices to large servers

Passion: Architecture and Object Oriented Design

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OXID eShop 4 Open Source

what does this exactly mean?

OXID eShop Professional Edition is available also as OXID eShop Community Edition

Licensed under GPLv3

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The Past

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Module snap in

Multiple inheritance possible

Best prepared for extension due to small and atomic functions

Prepared for multilanguage usage

eShop Extensions

ES

EN

DE

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Connecting OXID eShop

Various connectors to ERP already exist

– Microsoft Dynamics NAV– Büroware– SAP– Generic SOAP interface– Generic CSV interface– and many more

Also connectors to various CRM systems exist

– Drupal– Typo3– and many more

350+ third party extensions in existence

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Time to change

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XP – eXtreme Programming

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eXtreme Programming in OXID

Iteration length: 1 week

Only useful elements of XP are taken (e.g. pair programming only if needed/wanted)

Iteration planning at the beginning of each week

Change of plans possible every time – even late in development process

Monitoring release by using burndown charts

Team velocity is constant

Leads to predictable schedules

– Release dates are fixed in advance and kept

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Doing the XP - Goals

Porting to PHP 5

Common code base

Significantly improve quality of source code

Remove „Big Ball of Mudd“ elements

Reduce release efforts

Automatic build system

Measure code quality (code metrics)

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Tools

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Risks …

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Lessons learned

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Psychology ! – „the Gap“

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Narural Cleaner Architecture

Model-View-Controller pattern (MVC)

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Results

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Memory consumption CE/PE

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Memory consumption EE

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Response Time CE/PE

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If you are not developing with an agile methodology today, be warned.

It is not about deciding if you want it or not, only about when

Conclusion

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Press comments

„Der eShop überzeugt durch seinen schlanken Aufbau mit sehr guter Performance, ohne diese mit zu wenig Out-Of-The-Box-Funktionen oder mangelnder Erweiterbarkeit kompensieren zu müssen.“ t3n, 12/ 2008

Die Software überzeugt v.a. durch Usability auf Shop-nutzerseite.ix, 01/2009

„Der OXID eShop bringt von Haus aus alle für einen Online-Shop wichtigen Features mit: SEO URLs, Crossselling, Produktvarianten, beliebig verschachtelbare Kategorien, Mehrsprachigkeit, Web 2.0 Features etc.“„Wer ein flexibles Shop-System für höchste Ansprüche sucht, sollte sich den OXID eShop genauer ansehen.“PHP Journal 1/2009

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