About Browserscope
Browserscope is a very cool tool coming out of Steve Souders’ performance efforts and being developed by Steve along with Lindsey Simon. It’s part of a trend towards crowdsourcing browser info, in similar vein to TestSwarm, for testing specific code, and along the lines of what I did with WebWait, which is to support [...]
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Tags: Browserscope·Geolocation·html5·Javascript·Testing·Web
Cool! The Best Practices/Processes Patterns are now complete. They are the final eight Ajax Patterns for now – “final” in the sense of “the list is not yet finalised”. The patterns had been sitting there unattended for about four months now.
More details on the new patterns later, but here’s a quick summary …
First, there’s a [...]
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Tags: Agile·AjaxPatterns·DHTML·JsUnit·JUnit·Links·Logging·QA·Rhino·Software·Testing·Web·Web 2.0
“A Mock Is Not So Stupid After All!”
Dave Crane’s been talking about Mocking the Server-Side:
A Mock Object is a stand-in for the real thing. Few modern programs are really standalone, and enterprise apps require a very complex context in order to operate; containers, databases, directories, web services, etc. This can make testing difficult, [...]
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Tags: AjaxPatterns·Dependency Injection·Links·Mock·Mock Objects·Software·Testing·Web·Web2.0·XMLHttpRequest