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Programmers are having a laugh at the beleaguered car manufacturer Volkwagen's expense with the introduction of "VW Phpunit," a tool that helps programmers in the popular PHP language get their bad code through quality testing.

"Your primary objective is to ship more code to the world. No need to be slowed down by regressions or new bugs that happen during development," writes VW Phpunitauthor and French PHP programmer Hugues Maignol on the project's GitHub page.

Basically, VW Phpunitis an extension for PHPUnit, a popular code debugging tool.PHP itself is an immensely popular programming language