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.

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)
Generate identicons (https://github.com/blog/1586-identicons) or other distinct image for apps

Bugs

Tracking bug: 1059418.

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