Ryan Joy (atxryan) » testing

How I Use VMWare Fusion and Snapshots – Snook.ca

atxryan — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:56:58 +0000

Nice solution to multi-browser testing.

Tutti – Interactively run Javascript on multiple browsers

atxryan — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:08:41 +0000

When you enter a Javascript command, it is immediately sent to each browser that's connected to the room. Each browser then eval() the Javascript within an iframe sandbox and then send the result back not only to the originating browser, but to each browser to be displayed.

ABtests.com – Share A/B Testing Results. Improve your conversion today.

atxryan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:16:43 +0000

boomerang

atxryan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:18:06 +0000

boomerang is a piece of javascript that you add to your web pages, where it measures the performance of your website from your end user's point of view. It has the ability to send this data back to your server for further analysis. With boomerang, you find out exactly how fast your users think your site is.

Fake – Mac OS X Web Browser Automation and Webapp Testing Made Simple.

atxryan — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:32:21 +0000

Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction. The Fake Workflows you create can be saved, reopened, and shared.

Fiddler Web Debugger

atxryan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:51:28 +0000

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem.

Extreme testing of JavaScript delete operator on different browsers

atxryan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:36:37 +0000

Simple test suite to benchmark the time spent, and memory footprint left from using the JavaScript delete operator on object properties.

jsFiddle – Shell editor to test your JavaScript code

atxryan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:32:24 +0000

Excellent shell editor to test your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript snippets together. Includes the ability to load all major JavaScript libraries. Also, save your code snippets to a unique URL and share!

One great use of this site will be to compare the different methods of achieving similar results between libraries. For example, see http://www.jsfiddle.net/eFbwJ/12/ and http://www.jsfiddle.net/4vnya/.

Guide to Low-cost Usability Tools

atxryan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:47:48 +0000

Free ebook guide to 20 online usability tools, all of which have free or low-cost versions.

Crowdsourced Mobile Application Testing

Ryan Joy — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:34:40 +0000

In the course of researching mobile web application prototyping and testing, I came across Mob4Hire, a new service that aims to help mobile application developer with reliable testers through crowdsourcing. I went ahead and signed up. I look forward to testing out my first mobile application and checking out Mob4Hire at the same time.

With the sheer number of devices, operating systems, browsers, carriers, and geographies that may need to be tested, it can be really difficult to test against all the scenarios.

Crowdsourcing may be just the solution to this problem. Of course, the reliability of the testers probably cannot be guaranteed to be as good as, say, your in-house QA. I imagine that this service would mostly be useful to ensure that everything ‘looked’ ok in various devices leaving the functional, unit, and regression testing to the development teams.