Excerpts testing, performance, system testing and server provisioning...
Conducted by Zend Technologies, which is known for its Zend...
Less than 30 per cent used automation for unit...
was easy to learn and also could be deployed quickly...
open-source nature of the language to be a plus...
And...
using versions older than 5...
Respondents said they preferred PHP because it...
Ten per cent of the developers expected all their...
environment, with regard to bug-tracking, application-level monitoring and automation of core development functions...
said their application deployment process was automated...
Thirty-nine per cent had automated...
Three-quarters of the developers used at least one application...
per cent either using one or intending to use it...
While the choice of integrated development environments is a subject of much...
while version 5...
absorbed while 68 per cent found it faster to get things done...
was low, even in companies with more than 1000 developers...
This was slightly up, by two...
they were either using it or intended doing so within the next six months or a year...
error detection and application monitoring...
The survey, the second after one that was conducted in 2011, found that at least 63 per cent...
per cent said every developer had his or her own stack, while six per cent admitted to complete chaos on both fronts...
Version control also found many takers, with 81...
expected a varying number of applications they developed to be deployed to the cloud environment...
Given the work involved in maintaining multiple PHP stacks,...
cloud-based services or APIs as part of the applications they were designing...
As far as automation was concerned, the adoption rate...
development processes, the survey found that some four-fifths were using PHP 5...
applications to be deployed in the cloud, either private or public...
per cent, over the first survey...
they were not using a system to track the imperfections in code...
Only 14 per cent were...
Twenty-eight percent of those surveyed said they had just the one stack in development and...
Only 42 per cent of developers at large companies...
Application monitoring was not done widely...
either, with only 22 per cent having adopted the practice...
With regard to the level of sophistication and automation in...
However, when it came to bug-tracking, 41 per cent said...
organisations that are more efficient maintain as few as possible...
3, the most recent version...
4 was released only recently, three-quarters of those surveyed indicated that...
Seventy-two percent said the language was easily...
production, while 27 per cent had multiple stacks in development but only one in production...
But a quarter of the respondents were struggling with multiple stacks in development and production; seven...
framework; of the remainder, half intended to use one within the next year...
Sixty-three percent found the...
However, the survey found that there was a need for professionalisation within the corporate PHP development...
debate among the developers, 85 percent of those in corporate set-ups were using one...
Nearly three-quarters of those surveyed were found to be using...
engine that drives PHP, the survey covered 3035 developers worldwide...
until just before the survey...
Eliseo Villamin Jr Liked PHP Wins Over Cloud App Developers - Survey