Hey, there! First time posting to HN. A little info about what and why is this package, and the future of it, in hopes that it catches some attention and gets to help other php developers out there.
I wanted to calculate several statistics about a project I was working on, ideally wanted to write and perform them the same way you write and perform tests with PHPUnit, and I was baffled to discover there wasn't already any existing library to do that, not libraries to do it like PHPUnit, but any library at all.
I created PHPMetro to allow me to just write cases extending from a base case, add data on setUp and automatically perform test methods from console. And I think my library does a pretty good job at it's task.
Despite being an statistical analysis tool it does not provide any methods to perform statistical calculations, there are already very good libraries that do that.
Instead PHPMetro lets you create stacked analysis cases with contained samples that are dinamically generated, and perform and obtain a result from as many tests as you want.
I'm currently working on improving the current run performance, i.e reduce time and memory consumption. Since it's main ability consists in generating sampled data makes sense that it's good at doing that at large scale (samples in the hundreds of thousands in size).
Of course, feel free and welcome to join and contribute to this package if you spot anything that could be fixed and/or improved, I'd also love to receive some feedback about it of people who find it useful/interesting/etc.
I wanted to calculate several statistics about a project I was working on, ideally wanted to write and perform them the same way you write and perform tests with PHPUnit, and I was baffled to discover there wasn't already any existing library to do that, not libraries to do it like PHPUnit, but any library at all.
I created PHPMetro to allow me to just write cases extending from a base case, add data on setUp and automatically perform test methods from console. And I think my library does a pretty good job at it's task.
Despite being an statistical analysis tool it does not provide any methods to perform statistical calculations, there are already very good libraries that do that.
Instead PHPMetro lets you create stacked analysis cases with contained samples that are dinamically generated, and perform and obtain a result from as many tests as you want.
I'm currently working on improving the current run performance, i.e reduce time and memory consumption. Since it's main ability consists in generating sampled data makes sense that it's good at doing that at large scale (samples in the hundreds of thousands in size).
Of course, feel free and welcome to join and contribute to this package if you spot anything that could be fixed and/or improved, I'd also love to receive some feedback about it of people who find it useful/interesting/etc.