[Phptest-users] update

[Brandon Tallent]

With the recent list activity, I guess I'll give an
update of where phpTest is at currently and where it's
going in the future.

Version 0.6.1 will be released either this week or
next week.  I have a research paper on the DMCA due
for one of my classes so I'm not sure how much time
I'll have to work on it.  Someone has contracted
(read: offered to pay money) me to add several new
features to phpTest.  These features include limiting
how many times someone can take a test, not letting
people with a certain passing threshold retake a test,
and allowing html in the questions.  I've already got
that stuff in the code, but I'm going to wait until I
actually get paid to release the changes.  I went
camping this weekend and thought a bit about the
design and structure of phptest, mainly about test.php
which I feel is getting quite large and ugly.  What
I'm going to work on after I get this next release out
is breaking up each question type into a seperate
class file.  Each class file will have the functions
neccessary to integrate it: the code to add and edit a
question, the code to draw it on the test, the code to
score it, and the code to add it to the admin menu. 
The advantage to doing this will be modularity, it
will be easy to add a new question type (such as a
multiple select box) without having to rewrite major
portions of the rest of the code.

I'm tired of typing now.
Brandon

--- Kathleen Ferraro <address@hidden> wrote:
> Brandon,
> 
> I am also available to work on developing and/or
> implementing test plans.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Kathie
> 
> 
> On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 10:12 AM, Brandon
> Tallent wrote:
> 
> > so I'm learning as I go.  I had the thought for
> > regression testing as well, and in fact a phptest
> user
> > has volunteered to work on that aspect since he
> has
>
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