The PHP.net site has made the official announcement of the PHP projects involved with this year's Google Summer of Code:

The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Seven students will "flip bits instead of burgers" this summer:

On the list this year are:

• LiveDocs - mentor Michael Wallner, student Hannes Magnusson
• The PHP Interpreter - mentor Derick Rethans, student David Wang
• XDebug - mentor Derick Rethans, student Adam Harvey
• Doctrine - mentor Lukas Smith, student Konsta Vesterinen
• PHPUnit - mentor Sebastian Bergmann, student Mike Lewis
• MDB2_Schema - mentor Lukas Smith, student Igor Feghali
• Jaws - mentor David Coallier, student Nicolas Bérard-Nault

Also, be sure to check out some of the other organizations and students participating on the Summer of Code website.

The PHP.net site has made the official announcement of the PHP projects involved with this year's Google Summer of Code:

The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Seven students will "flip bits instead of burgers" this summer:

On the list this year are:

• LiveDocs - mentor Michael Wallner, student Hannes Magnusson
• The PHP Interpreter - mentor Derick Rethans, student David Wang
• XDebug - mentor Derick Rethans, student Adam Harvey
• Doctrine - mentor Lukas Smith, student Konsta Vesterinen
• PHPUnit - mentor Sebastian Bergmann, student Mike Lewis
• MDB2_Schema - mentor Lukas Smith, student Igor Feghali
• Jaws - mentor David Coallier, student Nicolas Bérard-Nault

Also, be sure to check out some of the other organizations and students participating on the Summer of Code website.

Another mentor for another Google Summer of Code project has been announced and Sebastian Bergmann will be mentoring Mike Lewis as he adds mutation testing for PHPUnit.

Sebastian quotes a definition of "mutation testing" as:

Mutation Testing, or Automated Error Seeding, is an approach where the testing tool makes some change to the tested code, runs the tests, and if the tests pass displays a message saying what it changed.

The key difference is that it makes it easier to run a series of tests rather than just one at a time, aiding in more complex testing abilities. Check out this page on the PHPUnit site for more information.

Another mentor for another Google Summer of Code project has been announced and Sebastian Bergmann will be mentoring Mike Lewis as he adds mutation testing for PHPUnit.

Sebastian quotes a definition of "mutation testing" as:

Mutation Testing, or Automated Error Seeding, is an approach where the testing tool makes some change to the tested code, runs the tests, and if the tests pass displays a message saying what it changed.

The key difference is that it makes it easier to run a series of tests rather than just one at a time, aiding in more complex testing abilities. Check out this page on the PHPUnit site for more information.