Testing
Why Load Testing Ajax is Hard
Today we are fortunate to have a guest post by Patrick Lightbody, most recently of BrowserMob fame (and previously Selenium work, OpenQA, WebWork, and more). Lets listen in to him talk to us about lo ....... read more
6 days ago
New Years Resolution: File a browser bug?
John Resig has laid out his thoughts on a Web Developers Responsibility, and it comes down to working with various up and coming browser versions and filing bugs:
Its safe to say that the biggest ....... read more
7 days ago
Common Feature Tests
Kangax has written about his new Common Feature Tests project:
I have been working on a little personal project of mine for the past couple of months. It?s called CFT and stands for Common Feature ....... read more
Wed,
10 Dec 2008
Meer Meer: Cross browser Testing all through your one browser!
The most exciting part of Adobe MAX last week was a service that was announced by Paul Gubbay at the Sneaks session that shows cool tech that Adobe folk are working on. His (very early stage) servi ....... read more
Mon,
24 Nov 2008
CSS Testing via Selenium
Gareth Rushgrove has published some code for CSS Test, code that lets you get in there and test resulting CSS:
CSS is hard to test automatically. Their appear to be two potential approaches
which m ....... read more
Mon,
24 Nov 2008
JSLitmus: Testing JavaScript Performance
Robert Kieffer has announced JSLitmus a tool "designed specifically to allow you to quickly and easily write a JavaScript test (or test suite), run it on any modern browser, and document and share th ....... read more
Mon,
10 Nov 2008
Weed Out Obtrusive JavaScript
By now, most developers have (or should have) come to realize how important it is to build unobtrusive JavaScript code. Apart from ensuring a better user experience, todays tools and libraries make i ....... read more
Tue,
04 Nov 2008
Testing Ext Applications With Selenium
Darrell Meyer has written a detail article on Testing Ext applications, both Ext JS and GXT versions:
Both Ext JS and Ext GWT applications can benefit from Selenium tests. In fact, with few except ....... read more
Tue,
04 Nov 2008
TestMonkey: How appropriate
There are a lot of monkeys making appearances in the Ajax world. Tamarins, Greasey ones, Action monkeys, and now we have TestMonkey from the Appcelerator crew:
TestMonkey is an open source (Apache ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
Jack: Mocking JavaScript the good way
Jack is a new JavaScript mocking framework coming out of Bekk in Norway. A lot of the RSpec talent is there too, so they know their Testing!
Jack features:
Set expectations for number of calls and ....... read more
Thu,
16 Oct 2008
UA Profiler: Automatically Testing browser features
Steve, have you done a performance analysis on Google Chrome?
Steve Souders did one better. Rather than just running some tests, he wrote a UA Profiler that allowed him to point a browser and le ....... read more
Wed,
10 Sep 2008
QUnit: A simple look at the jQuery unit test framework
Chad Myers has a simple look at GUnit, the jQuery based unit test framework. His article explains how to get going, and walks through a test like this:
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module("S ....... read more
Wed,
03 Sep 2008
MockMe: A new JavaScript mocking framework
Johannes Link is an Agile fellow who wasn't 100% happy with the existing JavaScript unit test frameworks, and he explained why. He gives an example:
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testDoubleSpea ....... read more
Mon,
11 Aug 2008
JavaScript Protocol Fuzzer
Gareth Heyes has written a JavaScript protocol fuzzer which has the goal of "producing every variation of javascript execution from links." If you check out the demo you see all of the options availab ....... read more
Mon,
30 Jun 2008
NitobiBug: Cross browser debugging
Nitobi has released a cross browser debugging script, NitobiBug:
It's a browser-based JavaScript object logger and inspection tool - similar to Firebug. NitobiBug runs across different browsers (IE6 ....... read more
Fri,
06 Jun 2008
JavaScriptMVC Test Plugin
Justin Meyer and the JavaScriptMVC team have created a new Test plugin. We all voted Testing as the number two pain point in Web dev and this is an attempt to make the world a bit better. Test let ....... read more
Fri,
25 Apr 2008
Cuzillion: Performance best practices tool
Steve Souders has released a nice little tool called Cuzillion which has the tag line of ?cuz there are zillion pages to check, although it could also be that there are a zillion ways to do Web devel ....... read more
Fri,
25 Apr 2008
jqunit: extending jquerys testrunner to all
Michael Grosser has created jqunit which wraps jQuerys testrunner in a way that makes it work with jsUnit, and also useful for libraries other than jQuery. Here is a full example: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIP ....... read more
Tue,
18 Mar 2008
Progressive Enhancement with CSS support
Via John Resig we just got to learn about a clever technique applied by the Filament group in Boston called Progressive Enhancement with CSS support. The study rightfully claims that object detection ....... read more
Sat,
15 Mar 2008
newjs: JavaScript Project Creation
When you start a new JavaScript library, how do you layout the source files, the tests, the distribution files? Do you have support scripts to generate distributions from source files? Run your JavaS ....... read more
Fri,
15 Feb 2008