PEST meaning

[AidasK]

Hi, just wandering, what does this word means? Maybe:

p - php
e - elegant
s - simple
t - tests?

Or is it just means Insect - pest? Any history how you can up with it?

Thanks!

[owenvoke]

PHP Test 🤷🏻 Afaik.

[JonPurvis]

I believe the story goes that Nuno came up with the idea for Pest, whilst with Freek Van der Herten from Spatie. He wanted to create a PHP Testing Framework like Jest, which is a Javascript Testing Framework, so...

PHP + Jest = Pest

Perhaps @nunomaduro can confirm though!

[phh]

Pretty sure you're right. Only:

PHP + Test = Pest