#testing (283 links)
- Blackbaud Labs - Labs Article labs.blackbaud.com
"One day it dawned on me that Webkit is VERY similar on Safari for Windows and the iPhone. Could I somehow embed just the rendering component into a native Windows application and give it enough polish to do a decent job of simulating the iPhone Web browsing experience?" It would appear that the answer is "yes".
Via paul.irish.
- Web Performance Matters - Journal - Acceptable Response Times webperformancematters.com
"The real question is not "What is the industry standard?" but rather "What response time will the users of my Web site or application find acceptable?"
- Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day. « Timothy Fitz timothyfitz.wordpress.com
"The high level of our process is dead simple: Continuously integrate (commit early and often). On commit automatically run all tests. If the tests pass deploy to the cluster. If the deploy succeeds, repeat." Blimey.
- Paypal - Test Credit Card Account Numbers paypal.com
- Geeking with Greg: Marissa Mayer at Web 2.0 glinden.blogspot.com
Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.
- userfly userfly.com
Run instant usability studies for your website using your real users. You can get it up & running in seconds with one line of javascript, and immediately watch movies of your users’ browsing sessions to analyze their behavior.
"Some tips on how to configure your development environment for screen reader testing." Although getting a dev to play with a screenreader can lead to a false sense of security; no substitute for proper testing.
- TeamCity :: Powerful Continuous Integration Server jetbrains.com
A powerful build management and continuous integration server supporting both Java and .NET teams.
Evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards.
- Increase Web Site Conversion Rates with Multivariate Testing and Content Targeting | Optimost optimost.com · Archived on
The pioneer in multivariable optimization, Optimost helps online marketers improve customer satisfaction, increase conversion rates, and maximize ROI.
- Debugging Django simonwillison.net
- Usability Testing is more than Testing thoughtballoon.co.uk
Products such as Morae allow 'usability labs' to be constructed from two laptops and a webcam. This has made Usability Testing as practical and almost exclusively necessary part of the building of any interface or application.
I ran a few tests on coworkers this morning using the application and was simply blown away by its ease of use and useful features.
- How to Report Bugs Effectively chiark.greenend.org.uk
- Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website crossbrowsertesting.com · Archived on
"We give you FULL ADMINISTRATIVE ACCESS to the operating system. While our primary focus is cross-browser testing, you actually have full control over the configuration. When you disconnect, the virtual instance goes away and so does any trace of your wor
- My DebugBar | IETester / HomePage my-debugbar.com
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
- Pylot | Open Source Web Performance Tool pylot.org
A free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.
- Website Broken Link Checker Robot / Bot / Spider :: Apple Macintosh OSX Business Software peacockmedia.co.uk
Possible Xenu alternative.
"When testing time came around, we found a way to make it fun… QA Deathmatch." Fun being a relative term in this instance.
- uTest - Software Testing Community utest.com
Should be testing their own site first, I think.
Testing your design in all the different email clients out there has got to be the most frustrating and time consuming parts of sending email campaigns. Our design and spam testing tool changes all that.
- Geek | Manager » Outsourcing and Test Driven Development blog.geekmanager.co.uk
"For better or for worse** however, many of us are on one side or the other of an outsourcing arrangement. I discovered in my work that using test driven development as a mechanism for both validation (are we building the right thing?) and verification (i
- Best Practices for Web Developers v1.03 masukomi.org
A heuristic approach to version control, unit testing, and app deployment.
"[These players] are available specifically for Flash developers who are examining their sites from the perspective of users with earlier versions of Flash Player." Use with KewBee plugin switcher for best effect.
- Eric's Archived Thoughts: Diagnostic Styling meyerweb.com
The primary goal here is to have a set of rules that can be applied during the development phase of a new layout. These rules’ aim is to visually highlight problems in the markup.
Now that I have an Intel-based Mac with Parallels and Boot Camp for running Windows, I have found the perfect screen reader testing system.
- YSlow for Firebug developer.yahoo.com
"...analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool." Hurrah, been waiting for this since @media.
- test everything — 100+ tools in one! tester.jonasjohn.de
CSS and HTML validators, SEO tools, Social services, Web proxies, Network tools, Text tools, Image tools (works only with Image URLs)
- Pingdom Tools tools.pingdom.com
Loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars.
- Wbox HTTP testing tool hping.org
Wbox aims to help you having fun while testing HTTP related stuff.
- alphaWorks : IBM Page Detailer : Overview alphaworks.ibm.com
Graphical tool that enables Web site developers and editors to rapidly and accurately assess performance from the client's perspective.
An offshore software development company based in Eastern Europe.
- Watir: Web Application Testing in Ruby wtr.rubyforge.org
A free, open-source functional testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It is pronounced water.
Collaborative test planning that’s just simple enough.
Here’s a detailed overview of the process we use for carrying out multiple assessments for projects like Better Connected, with some of the background about how we developed this process.
- Web Accessibility Validation Tool, Check Accessibility Online by Truwex checkwebsite.erigami.com
Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility, online privacy, quality standards.
- Browser testing CSS and JavaScript | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
My testing order, why I test in the browsers I do, and why I do it in that particular order.
Heuristic evaluation is a technique that involves analysing the usability of a website against a set of general usability precepts.