4 articles and links tagged with “testing”

1. Mnot's Redbot
   May 23, 2009

   Mark Nottingham has put together a really useful tool that aids in the analysis of the behavior of HTTP resources. I've started putting together a command line version based on the web version he’s released on GitHub.

2. Running `python-spidermonkey` on JeOS
   May 16, 2009

   Paul Davis' python-spidermonkey project looks brilliant.

3. The Value of Measurement
   May 10, 2009

   While I agree fully with many of the conclusions Lukas Mathis draws in an excellent essay on the recent Google/Douglas Bowman split, a few bits deserve further study. In general, engineers understand and can relate well to automated A/B testing, and designers understand and can relate well to more personal usability testing. The two are, however, not the same, don’t provide the same data, and ought not be conflated.

4. Installing the W3C HTML Validator on JeOS
   May 03, 2009

   So. W3C has quite decent installation instructions for the HTML validator, but it makes a few assumptions about a typical linux environment that don’t actually hold true if you’re running a stripped down JeOS distro in a virtual machine.