NYCPHP Meetup

[Morgan Craft]

I know testing was mentioned.  Has anyone played with Selenium at all?

http://www.openqa.org/selenium-ide/

Our development team is beginning to look at integrating this platform 
into our testing.  Anyone else using this at all?

Hans C. Kaspersetz wrote:
> Both talks would be very cool....  Chris, I would prefer the testing 
> discussion.  Are you talking about security testing or general 
> testing, like the use of test suites to perform regression testing, 
> ect?  I would prefer the later.  Seems like an issue that comes up 
> once a year and deserves that attention.
>
> Hans K
>
>
>
> Hans Zaunere wrote:
>> This is a good idea, too.  So, we went from not having any speaker, to
>> having too much material :)
>>
>> Folks who would be willing to present (April for sure, possibly May) 
>> please
>> ping me directly and we can schedule things in.
>>
>> H
>>
>>
>> Kenneth Downs wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:08 PM:
>>  
>>> Have you ever considered a database primer?  A very simple
>>> presentation could be built around a handful of ideas:
>>> 1) Vocabulary demystification,  column=field, tuple=row=record,
>>> relation=table, foreign key = reference, primary_key = "code" or
>>> unique value 
>>> 2)  Why you can do so much with primary and foreign keys
>>>
>>> 3)  Is normalization a black art, or a simple matter of technique
>>>
>>> 4)  What do people mean by denormalization, why do some people hate
>>> it so much?  Why do others say it is no big deal?
>>> 5) Finally, why programmers have trouble with databases and why
>>> database people have trouble with code, the so-called "impedance
>>> mismatch". 
>>>
>>> I'd be happy to prepare something.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hans Zaunere wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>     Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline) wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:01 
>>> PM:
>>>
>>>
>>>         Hey all,
>>>
>>>         Some application penetration testing would be fun.
>>>
>>>         Maybe using both tools (nessus) and scripts, brute forcing,
>>>     
>> cookie
>>  
>>>         altering, sql inject.
>>>
>>>         I dont know if that's something to put together in the next
>>>     
>> week,
>>  
>>>         but I would donate time to providing a portion of what's
>>>     
>> listed.
>>  
>>>
>>>     That's not a bad idea - maybe a cooperative presentation on a
>>>     specific set of topics?
>>>
>>>     H
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         Just some thoughts.
>>>
>>>         - Ben
>>>
>>>
>>>         ----- Original Message -----
>>>         From: "Chris Shiflett" <shiflett at php.net>
>>>     
>> <mailto:shiflett at php.net>
>>  
>>>         To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
>>>         <mailto:talk at lists.nyphp.org> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007
>>>     
>> 3:54 PM
>>  
>>>         Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [OT] Next meeting
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>             Hans Zaunere wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>                 Would be great to have you present.
>>>
>>>
>>>             Anyone have any topic requests?
>>>
>>>             My favorite topics are web application security,
>>>     
>> sessions, and
>>  
>>>             testing. I can also speak about DTD strategies:
>>>
>>>             http://handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/
>>>
>>>             Chris
>>>
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>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Kenneth Downs
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>>>     
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