Testability as observability and the Accessibility Object Model
I attended a talk today by Rob Dodson on some proposals for the Accessibility Object Model that are trying to add APIs for web developers to more easily manipulate accessibility features of their apps and pages. Rob went through quite a few examples of the benefits the proposed APIs would bring, from simple type checking… Read more
All your automated tests should fail
A crucial little caveat to my statement that automated tests aren’t automated if they don’t run automatically: All your automated tests should fail. … at least once, anyway. In the thick of implementing a new feature and coding up a bunch of tests for it, it’s easy to forget to run each one to make sure they’re… Read more
Highlights from one day at Web Unleashed 2018
I pretended to be a Front-End Developer for the day on Monday and attended some sessions at FITC’s Web Unleashed conference. Here are some of the things I found interesting, paraphrasing my notes from each speaker’s talk. Responsive Design – Beyond Our Devices Ethan Marcotte talked about the shift from pages as the central element in… Read more
99 character talk: Unautomated automated tests
Some of the testers over at testersio.slack.com were lamenting that it was quiet online today, probably due to some kind of special event that the rest of us weren’t so lucky to join. Some joked that we should have our own online conference without them, and Daniel Shaw had the idea for “99 character talks”,… Read more