#testing (242 links)
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- IE NetRenderer - Browser Compatibility Check - ipinfo.info
IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany.
- 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
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.
- Initial Impressions of Silverback astheria.com
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
"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.
- QA Deathmatch » “Hello World” - The SlickEdit Developer Blog blog.slickedit.com
"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.
- Email design and spam testing just got easy with Campaign Monitor campaignmonitor.com
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.
- IE NetRenderer - Browser Compatibility Check - ipinfo.info
IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany.
- 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.