GSoC 2010 Melange Testing Project: Week 1 of the Coding Period

The Coding Period of GSoC 2010 has officially started! In this week, I continued to add more test cases for the app.soc.logic.models.base.Logic.getForFields() method, started to commit and push the code to my clone. On this weekend, I will start to add test cases for other methods of the class and hope to complete it before next Monday. Another task on this weekend is to add a tentative project timeline to my project wiki, which becomes clearer after I discussed with Sverre tonight. Next week, I hope to complete the job of adding test cases for app.soc.views.models.base.View and some other pairs of logic and view, e.g. role and user. Anyway, time flies. Therefore I need to fly as well so that I can catch it or at least not fall far behind :-).

In this week, I also came across a nice book titled Programming Google App Engine from Dan Sanderson who has excellently explained the difference between GAE runtime environment and traditional web hosting or self-managed servers, the difference between GAE datastore and traditional relational databases, and pointed out the special consideration and strategies for building a scalable, responsive and optimized app upon GAE due to the difference. In addition, the book also covers basic things about GAE, e.g. how to set it up and how to build an app step by step as well as more advanced tools, e.g. the URL Fetch service, the Mail service and the XMPP service. So, it is highly recommonded for both beginners and intermediate users who want to make best use of GAE.