Saw this earlier, while doing some research on Laravel
https://gist.github.com/1677679
Thought there might be some cool things that would come in handy for you.
Also, Jeffrey Way with NetTuts just came out with a nice example of using TDD or Test Driven Development with PHPUnit.
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ph...-with-phpunit/
A good article by Phil Sturgeon on a PHP renaissance more or less, without depending on specific frameworks, using Composer packages
http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2012/...age-management