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About Me
- Name: Nigel Fernandes
- Location: Panjim, Goa, India
Crazy, dancing, programming, Goan.. I'm a computer geek and proud to be one. I program in Java, Ruby and .Net, PHP, Javascript. A lot of my recent work has been about CSS and UI design practices for large scale websites and Agile teams. I still while away hours dreaming up a web startup.
Questions for the Campers at BarCampMumbai2
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
A couple of days ago, I was at BarCampMumbai2, and I spent some time chatting with other campers on testing PHP-Mysql based web applications.
What I did share with the campers was some of our experiences at BookEazy. More important than that however, I actually approached them with 3 issues we have not been able to solve here.
I now throw these rather well known issues to the world of developers out there in the hope that somebody will share some testing Gyan with us.
Question 1
How do you effectively test a PHP function that looks something like:
function fooBar() {
// some code here
...
...
mysql_query( [some complicated dynamically generated query string here] );
...
// Some minor error checking and result processing here
}
What I'm looking for is a solution that helps reduce the complexity of doing super huge database data setups and tear down, because we know from experience that running the big mama setup route becomes unmaintainable fast.
Question 2
How do you test the mobile version of your application/website in an automated and script-able fashion. I know of no tool that implements a Selenium/Watir/WebDriver like testing framework for Mobile platforms
Question 3
How do you test mobile application delivery and installation across multiple mobile platforms in an automated fashion.
I invite anyone with suggestions, resources to share, ideas or comments to feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments section of this post.
Labels: BarCampMumbai2, PHP, Testing
Wish I had known you were interested in going.
How goes at IBM? I hear you were in Germany? How was it?
I replied on your blog btw.
I saw your comment on the blog -- haven't written in a while now.. but I do subscribe to comments (obviously! :P )
And yea, I *would* love to come for these camp thingies ;).. let me know about this hackercamp thing.. my email id is on my blogger profile..
also, is there like a site where you guys track these things? would make life that much simpler!
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