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Since quality assurance takes a significant amount of project time and resources, we are always looking for ways to improve its efficiency. One testing process improvement is to programmatically create sample testing data. To achieve this, we will use a popular PHP library called Faker.

Although MySQL is the most commonly used database software in web applications, there are many other database systems that are also popular and provide good solutions in certain use-cases. In this article, we will discuss these systems and their advantages and disadvantages.

The standard edition of Symfony PHP framework comes integrated with Doctrine, an object-relational mapper (ORM) and a database abstraction layer (DBAL) which makes working with databases very easy. This tutorial will focus on using Doctrine in Symfony–how to create models of database tables and its relations, how to query the data, and more.