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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. Trendsourcing by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Def. trendsource
    -verb: to solve problems using popular buzzwords

    ("The developers trendsourced the project by integrating crowdsourcing with Agile methodologies automated with a SOAP communication layer.")

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  2. Coincidentally... by pushing-robot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I happen to be working on "A system for euphemising poor coding practices using the latest buzzwords". It'll be awesome!

    Seriously, who needs a "crowd" at all? There are only a handful of popular browsers. They'd be much better off running tests in-house until they feel their code is rock solid.

    From TFA:

    100 tests in 12 browsers run on every commit by a human is just insane.

    And uploading your code to a public server on every commit and twiddling your thumbs waiting for good samaritans to randomly log in with various browsers and test it for you is...sane?

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  3. Re:private alpha == Vaporware by acidrainx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Knowing John Resig, I doubt this is vaporware. He's come up with some really amazing stuff and is constantly posting interesting JavaScript tidbits and information for developing real production code on his blog.