phpruntests - GSoC report 1

Hello world,

I'd like to take my chance to introduce myself in a short way. My name is
Georg Gradwohl, 25, studying Software Engineering at the UT Vienna
(Austria). Since about two weeks I'm working on the runtests-project, which
has the main goal to improve the performance and maintainability of the
automatic test-execution.

I had a very warm welcome in the php-community, especially by my mentors Zoe
and Stefan. So I'm very happy to be on board and looking forward to a great
soc 2009. :)



As requested, I'd like to give you a short report about my first two weeks:

Completed topics:
- Setting up the needed environment
- Getting familiar with the required tools, writing a few examples for that
purpose.
- Getting granular on the current runtests-script and the existing
prototype. 
- Implemented a version-check to ensure that the script is executed by and
testing an php-executable which is version 5.3 or higher.


Next steps:
- Implementing the "file-external"-section



It seems that I'm the first one writing this report - so if I have missed
anything essential, please let me know.

Regards from Vienna,
georg