STU188 - Test review

The application has been in testing now since september 28th, it has been through peer test with another developer and most recently the user testing.

Many issues have been brought up, the first few halted the peer test process. I feel like the application should have been finished to a better standard however I'm only just learning what that standard is and without the issues being raised by the testing I don't think I would come across them.

This is where I have started to learn about validation, a lot of the issues raised have been how the application deals with a user going back to correct their mistakes. once the user goes backwards through the sequence of pages the application starts to lose data before it can be written to the database.

I am also learning about the difference in web browsers, some of the issues raised in testing have been down to how the page displays in different browsers.

This may sound slightly naive, I had developed the application in firefox however when it was ran in internet explorer the output was quite a bit different which in turn caused errors in the styling settings meaning that bits of the page displayed in strange places with a layout we hadn't designed.

Iv'e had to ask for more help to get round these problems, greg and petra have both help a lot with the application.

During the corrective work I have worked some late nights, I feel that with some of the issues outstanding where I have not known enough to just simply amend them I have put the time into researching and experimenting with the software in order to reach a solution. Previously when I've done this it has been in controlled and I have had a clear plan on what I was doing I why the extra time needs to be applied. On this project I still feel quite nervous about whether I am doing the job right, given the allotted budget on the project I want to make sure I am doing the correct work and still managing to keep the budget from increasing. Aside from this I feel that I don't want to fail in front of my new colleagues.

As Ive been working through my corrections I have been given server access to work in situ, however as Ive been making changes I have been doing the changes on my machine and copying the code over to the server. The problem is my development version is not an exact copy of the productions version and I believe I have brought back bugs which I have previously resolved.