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Entries Tagged as 'Testing'

Using BrowserScope to Detect Geolocation Support

May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · SoftwareDev

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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8 New Ajax Patterns (Diagnosis and Testing)

November 6th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Links, SoftwareDev

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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Mocks, Stubs, Dependency Injection, and … XMLHttpRequest

October 31st, 2005 · 1 Comment · Links, SoftwareDev

“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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