We knew Acid3 was already cooking. It is now ready. The test can help the browser developer find bugs quickly and fix them, like the Webkit team has been doing. [Continue]
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Acid3 Competition
Now that we know about Acid3, Ian Hickson has announced a competition to build the remaining 16 of the 100 subtests for Acid3. Of course there are some rules your test will have to go by, but Ian also provides a test development console for you to run it. If you wanted to have a say in what browsers should comply with regarding ECMAScript and DOM, this competition offers you a very good opportunity.
Acid3 Already Burning
Oh well, the joy of major browsers complying with Acid2 is going to be shortlived, we already have Acid3! Just kidding. Neither is Acid3 ready, nor does it make any sense right now to run the browsers through it. [Continue]
Proof Of The Pudding Is In The Eating
There is an interesting conversation on between Phil Haack and Frans Bouma, about testing and proving code correctness. Is it good to test your software? Of course! [Continue]
Testing And Lorem Ipsum
Just like in development, right tools are extremely important in testing. The tools here include everything – from the automated testing tools, to the scripts, to the dummy text. Yes the dummy text! [Continue]
W3C Multipage Validator And More Tools
Lorelle writes about the W3C Multipage Validator. Validating markup of the entire site with the traditional validator was time consuming and usually led to skipping some pages. The multipage validator makes it very convenient. [Continue]
Developer Testing Master
Alberto Savoia thinks up a Developer Testing Master. A specialist who will bridge the gap between development and QA. I do not believe this applies in all cases, but I agree that as the development grows and as the testing grows, the gap grows too. [Continue]
Testing And Other Bug Finding Ways
Donna Bogatin writes that Google has lowest ratio of testers to developers. They can work like this because their self-testing and code reviewing ability reduces the burden on testers. However, I think there are two aspects we are looking at here. [Continue]
Test In Multiple Browsers
Any web developer will identify with the pain of testing a web design in multiple browsers on multiple platforms. Here is something that can lessen that pain – Browsershots (via fadtastic).
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