Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

TLDR; Testing responsive web does not mean test it on lots of devices and browsers. Look at the risk associated with your technical implementation and test those. You might still have to use lots of devices and browsers. After reviewing various chrome extensions, I use the Chrome built in functionality for visualising media queries.

I recently realised that I wasn’t taking advantage of as many automated validation tools as I could do. Hopefully after reading this post you will question whether your process uses enough automated validation.

TLDR; Browsers Lie To Us

TLDR; Total Validator Pro will spider a site and check its HTML as well as links. Free version works 1 page at a time. 30 GBP for the pro version.

TLDR; We test based on risk. If we don’t identify risk we don’t test for it. Automated tools can reveal risk that our technical knowledge can not.

TLDR; If you want a new job, then build a portfolio while you ’learn'

TLDR; Learn with an end goal in mind. That will keep you focussed.

Following on from the ‘How do I learn ‘automation’?" question. We had to ask questions to see what they would do with this newly learned ability to automate. If it was to find a job, and they had a specific type of job in mind then I think we could probably answer the question.

Following on from the ‘How do I learn ‘automation’?" question. We had to ask questions to see what they would do with this newly learned ability to automate. And because they want to perform ongoing work and this is part of their learning plan we can answer.

TLDR; I automate tasks by using tools and writing code. Understand what they abstract to learn more.

TLDR; Don’t just ’learn automation’. Learn it for a reason.