So social websites are all the rage, but no one gets that it’s not an overnight process. One of the most often forgotten areas is quality assurance (qa). Working on huge projects in less than ideal timelines almost guarantees that there will be mistakes but qa could be used as a way to mitigate risks and ensure that the final product is good for consumption. I’m sure there are other articles that do a good job of putting qa theory out there but I’m writing this from a PHP/Zend framework slant.

As far as development goes there are three major areas to be considered for testing (and by extension development)

Functional – this deals with the functionality of the website
Security – this is ensuring that the site is safe for users and protects their information
Performance -performance testing helps ensure that a website can accomodate the masses.

Over the next set of posts i’ll look at each in turn and how zend framework helps with each.