As part of my work on the blog’s presence, I try to submit my articles to relevant directories. One such directory is the Zend Framework Tutorials site, which I thought would be a perfect place for my Models in the Zend Framework series. Read more …

4. Testing

Testing is a software development method to increase software quality. There are several distinct types of testing which vary in granularity and purpose:

• Unit Testing: A test that validates an individual unit of source code, usually a function or a method.
• Integration Testing: A test in which a combination of components are tested together to ensure they are working well as a group. Preferably participating components are unit-tested.
• Acceptance Testing: A test in which a software system is tested as a whole. Acceptance testing declares the standards to which a software system is considered to be working (= accepted).

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jQuery 1.2.6 was released recently, with plenty of bug-fixes and speed improvements. Most notably event handling was sped up 103% and the dimensions plugin was integrated into the framework (the dimensions plugin is an API to calculate elements sizes in a cross-browser and reliable way).

In addition, jQuery UI has recently reached release-candidate status, which means all non minor or trivial issues were solved and it’s getting to the point that it will production ready shortly. I have been using its components for a while in anticipation of such release, and hopefully they will have their documentation up soon.

Good times to be jQuery developers

The common belief for those with no start-up experience is that a good idea is the most important property of a successful start-up. The perception is that successful entrepreneurs simply woke up one day after having a ‘eureka’ moment, and everything else was, as they say, history.
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