Hi everybody! I am collecting arguments for the Zend Framework to present it to my bosses and i thought it would be helpful for others searching for the right application framework. I found some very useful slides and sites yet: * http://www.slideshare.net/zend/san-francisco-php-meetup-presentation-on-zend-framework * http://www.slideshare.net/luckec/zend-framework/ * http://framework.zend.com/whyzf/
What i am searching for now, are some facts and/or studies concerning how unit tests, good documentation, an open-source community, etc. increases the quality of code/application itself, the productivity, the speed of development and how it lowers the time for a new developer to get up-to-speed quickly. The reason why i am searching especially for this facts is the condition of our self-made framework. Some facts: The framework has a "component-based" like architecture, but it has no MVC approach. It was designed about 6 years ago - which is not a bad point - but somehow most of the new developments out there are missing or they were implemented without refactoring some parts. Refactoring itself never happened. There are no Unit Tests and there is no useful documentation - in fact there is NO documentation or API reference available!! - I think that`s the main problem. I also see a big problem when it comes to develop a new application and new developers begin to work. When you get how the framework works, after much reverse engineering, it has also some very useful techniques and advantages for developers. Our web-application which is build upon this framework, is kind of stable and most of its users are satisified. But I think that the productivity with the zend framework would be better, it is more "future-proof" than our current framework and the quality would be higher than now - This is what i want to emphasize with some facts. I hope you could follow me and someone out there could help me finding some facts (and others searching for this kind of information / facts etc...) Thanks
