[TYPO3-GSoC] GSoC 2013 Project: Database Fixtures

[Pranjal Daga]

I have submitted the proposal on Google-melange
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/pranjaldaga/7001#
.
Please review it and suggest if it require any suggestions.

Regards
PRANJAL DAGA


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Pranjal Daga <pranjaldaga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> Firstly, I would like to congratulate Typo3 for getting selected in GSoC
> as a mentoring organization again.
>  I, PRANJAL DAGA, currently B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering
> student, am very inspirited to take up the project ”Database Fixtures”,
>  listed in your Ideas Page. My interest lies in software and programming. I
> have worked on HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, Django,
> node.js and also have a good amount of experience with frontend frameworks
> like JQuery, Twitter Bootstrap etc.
> As the famous notion goes, "Take care of the small things, and big things
> automatically fall in place."- the same idea which is driven in this
> project is one thing which can lead to the betterment of *TYPO3 CMS by
> providing it fluidity and at the same time flexibility too.
> **Setting up database fixtures is perhaps one of the most time-consuming
> parts in testing database-backed Web applications. *
>
> I think that the following things needs to be done when running a set of
> tests:
> *
> *
>
>    - Before all tests run, it should reset all tables relevant to the
>    tests to some known state.
>    - Before a single test method runs, it should reset the specified
>    tables to some known state.
>    - During the execution of a test method, it should provides access to
>    the rows of the data that contribute to the fixture.
>    *
>    The fixture data is organized as a collection of PHP files which is
>    the fixture file. Each fixture file must returns an array representing the
>    initial rows of data for a particular table and the file name should be
>    same as the table name.
>    *
>
> I will be submitting the proposal soon for this project and then I will
> send you the link to the submitted proposal on google-melange.
>
> Please tell me whether I'm going on the right track with the above
> mentioned approach or not.
>
> Regards and Thanks
> PRANJAL DAGA
>