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[David Mintz]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Joel De Gan wrote:

>
> I just finished a project for bypassing one of our partners captchas so
> we could automate using curl to snag some pages we needed..  So you say
> "captcha?" and you got that... :)

Maybe they oughta save you the trouble by exposing the data you need as a
web service, or something sexy like that?

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> I am working on some pages to create an image
> dynamically. I need pass information among different
> pages. so I use session strategy.=20
> But I get wrong data from some sessions at last page.
> Most data are correct, only few are wrong.=20
> Like, I define an array of color.=20
> $color =3D array(0=3D>"Black", 1=3D>"White", 2=3D>"Tan");
> A text color id should be less than 2, but i get its
> id as 16777215, so I can't get text color name from

16777215 is 2^24, so somewhere your going out of range most likely.

> above array according to the id. But I use same way to
> define the background color, it works well.
>=20
> I am using Windows XP OS.

How are you passing the session data around?  Maybe a couple lines of =
code would help...

H


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> I'm close to finishing an overhaul of a large application and will =
soon
> need to start up the testing, bug fixing, and "oops I forgot about =
that"
> phase. In the past, testing and qa have been handled pretty =
informally.
> They've also been pretty ineffective. Does anyone have suggestions or
> how-to stories for how to come up with test plans and procedures =
without
> having the luxury of a dedicated QA department? I'm not so much =
looking
> at things like unit testing as I am more user-related issues, like
> making sure an error message appears when it should or confirming that
> when a user deletes a database record, it really gets deleted.

This might sound silly, even demeaning, but have the users use it.  =
Seriously though, go through a beta phase, where real users can begin to =
use it.  For instance, when Yahoo! roles something new out, there's =
always a link on the old page to the effect of "Test Drive Our New =
Version."

Sure, it's good as a developer to go through the entire site, watching =
log files, and ensuring everything is up to par.  But really... you =
wrote it, and will never find the errors like someone who is just using =
it (ironic as it sounds).

H