Linking your test management protocols with an existing test automation procedure can prove to have substantial benefits. Lots of people mistakenly imagine that in order to link the testing cycle processes to the automation system they will need to spend a lot of money and invest in what they consider to be high end software and hardware from a company like Hewlett Packard. These days however, it is easy to find low and mid range solutions to this problem. These are frequently bundled with application programming interfaces which will enable you to merge the operations with things like Selenium, and open source approach.

Rather than try to pick their way through the often confusing collection of competing high end, all in wonder solutions, many companies have decided to embrace the reduced cost of a lower tier solution. It’s nice to have the absolute top of the line, but affording that sort of equipment is often a budgeting nightmare. Mid level test management tools coupled with automation from open source code, you achieve high quality without the high costs. This approach is further recommended due to the ease with which you can set up an integrated reporting protocol and the convenience of run scheduling from a central station.

One of the best ways to get current, real time data on your running tests (both manual and automated) is through the use of integrated reporting. You won’t have to sift through and collate data in Excel anymore. And though this may not seem like a huge savings at the moment, consider what will happen when your business grows. It may be easy enough to interpret the data from five or ten sources, but what if you have hundreds? You will also be able to spot patterns and trends quite easily. The ability to quickly and accurately compare data from manual new feature testing and automated regression testing simultaneously may allow you to conclude certain things about the overall processes. If the automatic testing shows considerable failure levels while the manual tests report no change, it is possible that there are regression issues being unnecessarily introduced by the development team.

There are two basic ways in which a centralized scheduling and control system can be of great benefit. There may be times when you have left the work place for the day only to realize that you have forgotten to schedule a run for a client. Rather than having to go all the way back there, you can simply log on to the central control, if you have access, and initiate the runs from there. It won’t be a problem. In another situation, you may find yourself quite easily managing the two or three clients that you are scheduling and sending runs through, but when that client number hits twenty or fifty things get more difficult. With a fully integrated control system like this you can use the same interface to access multiple clients, and even schedule multiple runs for them all at the same time and in the same place.

The more complex and sophisticated software test procedures become, the more sophisticated and complex the tracking of both automated and manual tests. You can save considerable time and effort by bringing all of your test management systems, reporting, and control into one integrated package. You can also expect more control and higher status visibility with a single, central access point for your operations.

As far as web development goes, Zend Framework is one of the most popular frameworks out there. It’s an MVC design that is used by many popular websites. It allows easy access to a vast amount of information, such as getting current URL attributes.

There are few scenarios where using a singleton design pattern is deemed acceptable. Zend Framework uses it as a pattern for the front controller, and it works great for accessing request information from anywhere in the application. The reason most developers don’t use this pattern is because it may be abused, so be careful not to call the front controller where it shouldn’t be. A good example is with using logic code in the view: this goes against MVC principle.

When working in the view the developer is limited to what he or she may do. This is because the view is not supposed to have any logic code in it. To remedy this, Zend Framework developers created the Server Url view helper. It returns the URI or URL to build a base URL path. When further elements from the request object are needed, developers should instead put logic in the controller and access the data by passing it to the view.

The controller extends the basic Zend Controller Action. With this class you can access HTTP request information through several different methods. You are able to access the scheme, domain, controller, action, path information, and parameters if they are present. You will have to piece all of these variables together to build a URI. It’s more work than in the view because we don’t use the view helper here.

When working in library files you do not have direct access to the Zend Controller Action class. Thus, you can’t get direct access to the HTTP request object. Instead you can create an instance of the front controller and access the information just like you would in the controller as previously discussed. This is one of the few times you can access information in this style: singleton patterns are used few and far between.

To make things easier in getting a base URL, you may use a base URL helper. This allows you to quickly access a set base URL in any part of the application. You set this helper in the bootstrap and in your application configuration file. The base URL helper takes more time in setting up, but it’s a joy to have when working in the view to quickly piece together URL information.

Closing Comments

Zend Framework gives easy access to URI information, just like PHP does. The difference is that Zend Framework makes the process easier and does so according to MVC design. The best part is that you can depend on the methods to return what you need – you won’t have to build your own methods and functions to get URL variables.

The advantages of smartphones are clear to anyone who uses them and as the numbers indicate more and more people upgrade their old devices to those devices because of their obvious benefits. The advanced technology those phones offer, provide the users with a whole different experience, an experience that extends the old and traditional uses of the cellular devices. The growing demand for these phones led to the creation of another complementary industry, the industry of smartphone applications.

The spectrum of iphones application is very wide. The applications cater any need you may think of: business, fun, entertainment etc. The application turn the phone from a device mainly designated to talk to people to a device that replace you own personal computer.

Creating a good and successful application is definitely not trivial. Although it is not always easy to predict which one will succeed and which not and sometimes those who seem unlikely to succeed are those who make it big time, creating good application entails a thorough research of the market.

Many entrepreneurs are looking to make the big money by developing applications for devices, but many ideas fail due to problems in one or more of the developing and marketing process; either the idea wasn’t good enough or the developing had shortcomings the developers were unaware of or the marketing process wasn’t adequate.

Developing a concept is just the first stepping stone that should be followed by many other stepping stones. In order to make it right you need to think about every step of your marketing way: checking your competitors, checking similar products, analyzing your target audience etc.

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