Hi, I'm currently building an application which we will host on our servers as a pay-for-use commercial service. We're making contact with some beta evaluators who we hope will help us to refine the product and hopefully, pay for the service and be our initial reference sites. The website will be testela.com - its not live yet - but our staging/ test and live sites are set up under different urls.
Currently, I'm doing all the coding, but I need to come out of my cave and 'get out there' to sell the concept and the product. So I'm looking to offload some, perhaps all of my dev workload. I have a tester (who is my non-exec chair :O)), and I'll do some testing and act as Product Owner. We'll probably operate a variation of Scrum to manage the work. The tool is intended to support large projects to help them manage requirements, collect user stories to example the requirements and to build comprehensive system/acceptance tests. A smaller and different cut of the functionality will be offered as a support tool for Agile projects using Scrum. The tool will evolve to include full test execution management and probably integration with test execution tools. We'll use the tool to help us manage the project to build the tool. (Eating own dogfood etc.) I'm interested in hearing from smart developers with experience in any (or even all!) of the following. I've separated the current from the futures. What we use today: Web2py, Python, HTML, CSS (obviously!) (Ubuntu) Linux, Apache MySQL jquery, jqgrid, AJAX Futures: Web Services for clients to extract data from the tool (where required) Testing frameworks (to link to tools that developers/system testers use) Source code management tool (possibly Git) and maybe a reliable automated build process - this is a priority Interfaces to test execution tools such as Selenium, Webdriver or proprietary tools like QTP etc. etc. And oh, yes, we expect to pay for services rendered! The relationship could evolve into a full time role or long term partnership. Let's see. :O) I'm based in Maidenhead, UK. Now it would be nice to meet people face to face in the UK, but that's a nice to have and if you are on the other side of the world - maybe it's not a problem. Drop me a note here, or mail me at paul at gerrardconsulting dot com. (Our drupal based website is also due for a refresh so it doesn't mention Testela - yet). Thanks.
