18 things tagged “testing”

• Monday September 12, 2011

  xdissent/ievms - GitHub

  • browser
  • web
  • testing

• Monday August 15, 2011

  cucumber-nagios

  Describe how a system should work in natural language, and outputs whether it does in the Nagios plugin format.
  • web
  • testing
  • cucumber
  • nagious
  • devops

• Tuesday March 15, 2011

  Unit tests: out of the ivory tower and into the trench

  • software
  • tdd
  • unit-testing
  • pragmatic

• Tuesday February 22, 2011

  Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VirtualBox on Mac OS X – Flailing Wildly - Ryan Parman

  • virtualization
  • ie
  • osx
  • ie6
  • testing

• How To Use Microsoft IE VPC Images with VirtualBox on Mac OS X | Daniel McOrmond

  • virtualization
  • ie
  • ie6
  • testing
  • howto

• Saturday November 27, 2010

  REDbot - an HTTP tool

  RED is a robot that checks HTTP resources to see how they'll behave, pointing out common problems and suggesting improvements. Although it is not a HTTP conformance tester, it can find a number of HTTP-related issues.
  • analysis
  • apache
  • headers
  • http
  • validator
  • testing

• Saturday November 6, 2010

  The importance of virtualised development environments

  Gareth Rushgrove just wrote a great blog post entitled Why You Should Be Using Virtualisation, which...
  • development
  • lastfm
  • testing
  • qa
  • servers

• Saturday August 14, 2010

  Cucumber: building a better World (object)

  An explanation of Cucumber World, essentially just an object scope your tests run in, and how to extend it.
  • cucumber
  • bdd
  • development
  • ruby
  • testing
  • tips

• 15 Expert Tips for Using Cucumber | Engine Yard

  Good tips for Cucumber testing, though the comments disagree with using rake
  • cucumber
  • testing
  • ruby
  • development
  • programming
  • acceptance

• Wednesday August 11, 2010

  Webrat Textmate bundle

  Minimal, but handy.
  • textmate
  • editor
  • development
  • webrat
  • testing

• Textmate bundle for Cucumber

  Gives some handy syntax highlighting and autocompletion.
  • textmate
  • bundle
  • cucumber
  • testing
  • development
  • tools

• webrat cheatsheet

  ugly, but useful
  • testing
  • webrat
  • cucumber
  • bdd
  • cheatsheet

• Tuesday July 13, 2010

  Writing Testable JavaScript

  Good practical thoughts on JS testing.
  • javascript
  • testing
  • tdd
  • code
  • development
  • web
  • qunit

• Tuesday May 25, 2010

  The Flawed Theory Behind Unit Testing

  More thoughts onTDD and general testing. Why it can be very beneficial, but not for the reasons a lot of people thing.
  • testing
  • unittesting
  • programming
  • code

• It's OK Not to Write Unit Tests

  An interesting argument against unit testing, lots that I agree with in here.
  • testing
  • unittesting
  • programming
  • code

• Monday February 8, 2010

  mzsanford's twitter-text-conformance at master

  Yaml files that define the conformance testing for twitter-text-* libraries, allowing multiple languages to test against the same rules. Smart.
  • twitter
  • testing

• Wednesday October 14, 2009

  JSON, Octal Numbers & Validation

  Now it’s launched in London I’ve been playing around with the Foursquare API. While...
  • json
  • javascript
  • octal
  • bug
  • testing
  • validation

• Tuesday March 10, 2009

  A 5 minute video introduction to the Selenium IDE.

  • web
  • development
  • video