#testing (283 links)
- Web Font Specimen webfontspecimen.com
Because web type renders differently with only subtle CSS adjustments, seeing it exercised in a variety of ways can help web designers typeset—and also help them decide which typefaces to purchase for their projects.
Via smitchio.
An active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the output from a number of active (but hopefully non-disruptive) security checks. The final report generated by the tool is meant to serve as a foundation for professional web application security assessments.
Via paul.irish.
- The Test Crowd thecrowd.softwaretestingclub.com
Remote/crowd-sourced software testing (using a community of testers, not random people) . Like the sound of this.
- databene benerator databene.org
A framework for generating realistic and valid high-volume test data for your system under test (avoiding the Datalite anti-pattern).
Via markrocky.
- Facebook Developers | Tools developers.facebook.com
API and FBML test consoles plus Facebook Connect playground.
A member of the xUnit family of testing frameworks and provides both a framework that makes the writing of tests easy as well as the functionality to easily run the tests and analyse their results.
- django-lint - Statically check Django applications « code « lamby chris-lamb.co.uk
Reports on common programming errors and bad code smells, including checking for nullable CharField field types, the use of brittle or deprecated Django features (such as auto_now_add) as well as the absence of recommended options in settings.py. It aims to encourage the development of high-quality re-usable Django applications.
- Pagetest - where web sites go to get FAST! webpagetest.org
Shows "a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist."
- Visual Website Optimizer - Hassle-free A/B, Split and Multivariate Testing visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
- Test Mobile Applications on Real Devices - Perfecto Mobile perfectomobile.com
- We are Colorblind » Patterns for the Color Blind wearecolorblind.com
About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues.
"An HTTP viewer and debugger that integrates with IE and Firefox to provide seamless HTTP and HTTPS monitoring without leaving the browser window." Win only, basic (free) and pro (pay) versions.
"A unit testing framework/tool for cascading stylesheets that allows you to write tests for you webpages to pass." Early days.
A configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response.
- PostBin - Debug web hooks postbin.org
Lets you debug web hooks by capturing and logging the asynchronous requests made when events happen. Make a PostBin and register the URL with a web hook provider. All POST requests to the URL are logged for you to see when you browse to that URL.
- macosxvirtualserialport - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
Do you want to test your next Mac OS X-to-Arduino project without always having the Arduino available? Do you want to test you cool Processing application when your mate hasn't finished writing the Arduino sketch? Do you want to do test driven development of your Mac OS X based application without dependency on your microcontroller?
- Effective A/B Testing elem.com
Very detailed A/B testing presentation.
Via simonw.
- Token Testing Slides slideshare.net
- Webmaster Tools - Rich Snippets Testing Tool google.com
Allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa. Enter a web page URL to see how it may appear in search results.
- Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practises « Steve Sanderson’s blog blog.codeville.net
It’s overwhelmingly easy to write bad unit tests that add very little value to a project while inflating the cost of code changes astronomically.
- NoSquint :: Add-ons for Firefox addons.mozilla.org
Allows you to adjust the text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels as well as color settings both globally (for all sites) and per site.
- fivesecondtest fivesecondtest.com
A simple online usability test that helps you identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces.
A Treejack survey will show you the parts of your IA that work well, and the bits that need more work. Get answers to questions about which labels work best, whether a structure is too deep and where to put certain types of content. Think of it as analytics for a website you haven't built yet.
Get answers to questions about which labels work best, whether a structure is too deep and where to put certain types of content. Think of it as analytics for a website you haven't built yet.
- Bitten bitten.edgewall.org
Bitten is a Python-based framework for collecting various software metrics via continuous integration. It builds on Trac to provide an integrated web-based user interface.
- Emergent Properties of Continual Automation « Timothy Fitz timothyfitz.wordpress.com
Once a task has been automated to take dramatically less time, a threshold is crossed and at which point you can exploit emergent properties. Or in other words, crazy-ass improvements.
- qa-style-sheet - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
The QA style sheet highlights specific HTML problems like use of deprecated elements, inaccessible images, layout tables, empty elements, or styling-related maintenance issues. Theoretically, it is “unobtrusive” in a sense that when everything’s fine it won’t cause any visible changes.
A system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure. The guilty developer can be identified and harassed without human intervention.
- Mozilla Webdev » Blog Archive » Cesium 0.1 Released! blog.mozilla.com
A hybrid web application/testing harness that automatically runs YSlow on a suite of pages of the user’s choosing at scheduled times, stores these results, and provides a host of graphs and other data concerning the results of these tests.
- ongoing · Test-Driven Heresy tbray.org
Here’s my thesis: As a profession, we do a lot more software maintenance than we do greenfield development. And it’s at the maintenance end where TDD really pays off. I’m starting to see lapses from the TDD credo as more and more forgivable the closer you are to the beginning of a project. And conversely, entirely abhorrent while in maintenance mode.
- Adam Goucher » Blog Archive » YSlow and Continuous Integration adam.goucher.ca
This post explains how, if I didn’t have a whole bunch of stuff on my plate right now, I would get YSlow failing builds.
Via paul.irish.
Adds a tab to Firebug for measuring the load time of web pages.
Via tomtaylor.
- hudson: an extensible continuous integration engine hudson.dev.java.net
Extensible continuous integration engine
- Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps - O'Reilly Radar radar.oreilly.com
More on continuous deployment.
- Alkaline - Litmus litmusapp.com
"Tests your website designs across 17 different Windows browsers right from your Mac desktop in seconds. No need for virtual machines, Windows licenses, or any messing around with Windows Update." Requires a litmus account.
- NVDA – a free, open source screen reader | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Hadn't come across this one.
- Expression Web SuperPreview makes cross-browser testing like moist delicious cake - istartedsomething istartedsomething.com
Allows you to compare different [IE] rendering engines in a single unified interface
- Color Oracle colororacle.cartography.ch
Takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.
"Xenocode WebApp technology allows Internet Explorer 8, 7, 6, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome to run simultaneously on any version of Windows, directly from the web". Win only.