Re: not testing Bank transfers, just simulate it

[Davi Leal]

Nicodemo Alvaro wrote:
> I don't understand how I will be able to do testing on my own if the
> project will need a bank account to be managed. Will the bank give us
> a test account so that we can see how things work?

The current webapp does not use a bank account. So you can do any development 
or testing in your own PC, as for example I am doing at my home PC.


If the webapp add a bank account we will be able to _simulate_ it at our 
development PCs. It is as development department works, you simulate the 
expensive devices you can not buy to be used just for development.

For example, if you are developing a software to control the Chernobyl nuclear 
power plant, you do not use such plant to _test_ your software.  You instead 
connect your software to a "nuclear power plant" simulator which just 
implement the interface, reading and returning the expected bytes.


When we need such bank simulator we will add the needed information at 
the "How to install a development environment?" wiki [1].

  [1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/cookbook/?func=detailitem&item_id=155


So, I think maybe actual bank transfers will be checked only on production. 
They will be simulated at development. I suppose you do not want spend one 
dollar each time you need to check the web page you are developing.