Marketplace/Fake Data

Tools and libraries for generating data are needed to exercise every part of our code without unnecessary storing/sharing of data from production.

To meet this need, convenience functions for generating data are being added to zamboni (currently they live here: https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/blob/2efc0527/mkt/webapps/tasks.py#L849-L965 ), and are used by a simple command line app, ./manage.py generate_apps (see Marketplace/Fake_Data/App_Generator for details and planned features.)

Types of data to generate

• Hosted apps
• Packaged apps
• Packaged app versions
• User accounts
• User reviews
• Icons
• Previews
• Localized strings

User stories

New developers

A new developer follows the instructions on https://zamboni.readthedocs.org/ to create a new development configuration. He creates an admin user account and runs a command that creates a variety of apps, some of them owned by his new account, some not.

Existing developers

A Zamboni developer needs to create apps in a specific state with specific properties, and so runs a command with flags/options specifying what's needed.

marketplace-dev deployment

When Zamboni is deployed in a non-production role, a variety of different apps are created with status and data appropriate for every use case that QA needs to test. A list of cases to generate can be found here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/app-types

TODO

• Generate apps with various statuses
• Generate packaged apps
• Generate packaged apps with multiple versions
• Create script that generates a database suitable for local dev (syncdb, loaddata, generate accounts, apps, etc)
• Add ability to load config file/JSON data describing data to create
• Generate identicons (https://github.com/blog/1586-identicons) or other distinct image for apps

Bugs

Tracking bug: 1059418.

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