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Crowdsourcing JavaScript Testing

Posted by timothy on from the isn't-that-what-slashdot-is-for dept.

snitch writes "John Resig, creator of the jQuery JavaScript library, has released Test Swarm, a platform for distributed continuous integration testing for client-side JavaScript. Frustrated with traditional JavaScript testing environments that don't scale, John's new project, which is currently in private alpha, aims to provide a system for outsourcing browser-related testing to large groups of people or communities."

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  1. Crowdsourcing by Darkness404 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Crowdsourcing is a bad buzzword that combines the worst of both betas and open source. Far too often "crowdsourcing" is "we want you to find all our bugs for us while we do nothing". By crowdsourcing something you doom it to a perpetual beta while usually not making it fully OSS so it can be really transformed and used.

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  2. Re:Trendsourcing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Put it in the cloud and we will have a new paradigm.

  3. Sh*tsourcing or Crowdsh*ting by Bubba · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Eitherway, it's a better buzzword than crowdsourcing.

  4. Lots of Javascript developers call this "release" by Kenja · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Want to get a lot of people to test your Javascript? Call it version one and release it.

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