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Building a FileMaker Test Framework

Build a test framework before deploying your app in a real-world environment.


The more important an application and its data, the more we should pressure test it before deploying it in a real-world environment. 


For a hosted solution across a local area network or over the web, we may need to anticipate hundreds or even thousands of simultaneous users. 

To make sure our solution can handle those numbers, a best practice would be to create a test environment that can run essential processes in parallel to replicate high volume usage. 

To do this effectively, we needed a tool to organize our tests, run test scripts in large series, and organize results for review. 

We needed a test harness or an automated testing framework

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Software is testing | Seth Godin - FileMaker tip

Software is testing | Seth Godin - FileMaker tip | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
Writing the first draft of a computer program is easy. It's the testing that separates the professional from a mere hack.

Test and then, of course, make it better.

 

The same thing is true with:

 - Restaurant

 - recipes

 - Essays

 - Web user interface

 

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Test Data Generator | FileMaker

Test Data Generator | FileMaker | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
When testing the functionality of a solution, software developers frequently have to create test records, which requires them to enter in test data.

If the fields requiring a value include a name field, I'm good to go for about 5-6 records, until I exhaust the 'first name' supply that I seem to keep handy in my brain.

If I also need to enter in address data, I'm hopeless.

Pretty soon, I'm just typing in "xxx" or "asdf".

If there's data validation in place, then I'm in real trouble.

 

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How Usability Testing Drastically Improved My Client's App | Smashing UX Design - Filemaker inspiration

How Usability Testing Drastically Improved My Client's App | Smashing UX Design - Filemaker inspiration | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
How usability testing can help you find the pain points and flaws in your app and drastically improve it after redesign.

 

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Design is a highly iterative process, and all of the intuition in the world won’t help you to identify gaps in your product.

As designers, we’re just too familiar with our own work to be able to easily spot where it fails.

The only way to truly improve a design is to test it on real users and watch how they interact with it.

Testing with a live app uncovered problems that led us to turn a four-star effort into a five-star product, with only a little work.


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Didier Daglinckx's insight:

Do you test your Filemaker developments with real users before launching ? after installation ?

 

When ?

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Free Sample Data | FileMaker

Free Sample Data | FileMaker | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it

Always test your software with a "worst-case scenario" amount of sample data, to get an accurate sense of its performance in the real world.

These data files are of super high quality.

See the description at the right.

 

Included fields are:

First Name
Last Name
Company
Address
City
County (where applicable)
State/Province (where applicable)
ZIP/Postal Code
Phone 1
Phone 2
Email
Web
All files are provided as CSV (comma-delimited).

Didier Daglinckx's insight:

Also look at http://www.fakenamegenerator.com

 

(Thanks to Douglas Alder -  hbase.net)

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Doing Terrible Things To Your Code | FileMaker tip

Doing Terrible Things To Your Code | FileMaker tip | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
In 1992, I thought I was the best programmer in the world.

In my defense, I had just graduated from college, this was pre-Internet, and I lived in Boulder, Colorado working in small business jobs where I was lucky to even hear about other programmers much less meet them.

 

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Mobile Responsive Design Testing & Screenshot Mockups | FileMaker Webdirect testing

Mobile Responsive Design Testing & Screenshot Mockups | FileMaker Webdirect testing | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
Website responsive design testing on real devices.

 

Capture instant screenshots across multiple devices.

 

Get started free (or choose for more).

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