scudsucker
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Hi,
We're creating an app that requires a cellphone number to be verified against an account by sending the number an OTP in an SMS
The problem comes in testing: the number is then linked to the test account, and cannot be used for another test account. This causes problems for QA who need to do a large number of tests - ideally they should be using a unique phone number for each test, not - as we do now - edit the account in the DB to remove the cell number to free it for the next test.
I'm not sure what Service Provider we are using to send the SMS - that's the responsibility of different branch.
We really need something like Mailinator, but for cell numbers.
Surely though, a company that sends SMSs should easily be able to take a non-existent number in local format - say, +27 99 123 4567 as input, recognize that it is "special" and forward it to a "normal" number?
Do any local SMS-senders do this?
( I could suggest that we built an SMS gateway that does this, but it is not really our core business)
We're creating an app that requires a cellphone number to be verified against an account by sending the number an OTP in an SMS
The problem comes in testing: the number is then linked to the test account, and cannot be used for another test account. This causes problems for QA who need to do a large number of tests - ideally they should be using a unique phone number for each test, not - as we do now - edit the account in the DB to remove the cell number to free it for the next test.
I'm not sure what Service Provider we are using to send the SMS - that's the responsibility of different branch.
We really need something like Mailinator, but for cell numbers.
Surely though, a company that sends SMSs should easily be able to take a non-existent number in local format - say, +27 99 123 4567 as input, recognize that it is "special" and forward it to a "normal" number?
Do any local SMS-senders do this?
( I could suggest that we built an SMS gateway that does this, but it is not really our core business)