One of our team members is a testing ninja and we bring him on board exactly because of that. We wanted to make our testing framework more robust so we asked for his wise expertise. One of the things he proposed was the use of Zend Framework. I’m not very keen of frameworks but it’s true that from a code point of view, we do need to get a better MVC architecture than the one we have now.

This is specially true now that it’s not just me coding, but a couple more people, so we are migrating part of the code to the Zend Framework or more precisely, to a tuned version of it we want to build. The idea is to only use what’s necessary to be able to create interface tests in a very reliable way. Right now this is not entirely possible without Selenium (our testing UI server), and what we want is to don’t need a webserver to run the tests.

We’ll be migrating parts of the UI and will be living with both environments until we’ve migrated all the code.