Loading…

Joe Steinbring

Testing

Confirming that what gets built works for everyone: on browsers, operating systems, and devices that are not sitting on the developer’s desk, and for people using assistive technology. It is the check on everything in Languages & Frameworks before it reaches Hosting & Infrastructure.

I tested in Sauce Labs at Starkmedia and UW-Milwaukee and in BrowserStack at Bader Rutter. Now I test on virtual Android and Apple devices, and check accessibility with WebAIM’s WAVE.

Explore testing

Sauce LabsI used Sauce Labs at Starkmedia and at UW-Milwaukee, for the Graduate School and the Office of Research, to check sites against browser, operating system, and device combinations that I could not reproduce on my own machines.BrowserStackI used BrowserStack at Bader Rutter to check sites against the browsers and devices that I did not have on hand.Android StudioAt UW-Milwaukee, I use the emulator in Android Studio to test code against virtual Android devices, and I wrote about the technique on JWS News.Xcode SimulatorAt UW-Milwaukee, I test on Apple platforms from a Mac: macOS directly, and iOS and iPadOS in the Simulator that comes with Xcode.WebAIM WAVEWAVE, from WebAIM, is my go-to accessibility checker, and I reach for it constantly in my current role at UW-Milwaukee. I keep the browser extension installed in Vivaldi, and because it runs in the browser rather than as a web service, it can test pages that are not publicly accessible.Cross-listed from API development & testingPostmanPostman covers the API side of the same problem: automated collection runs that check endpoints and payload contracts.

From the blog

Related writing

Articles from JWS News and DEV that relate to testing.

  1. How to test your web app on Android if you don’t own an Android device

    Picture this: You’ve just spent weeks perfecting your new web application. It looks flawless on your laptop, renders beautifully on your iPhone, and passes every desktop test with flying colors. But then reality hits—how does it look to the billions of people using Android? If y…

  2. How do you make sure your apps are accessible?

    We all know the reasons why our apps need to be accessible. Section 508 mandates that federal agencies and organizations receiving federal funding make their digital technology accessible to people with disabilities. Even for private companies, conforming to accessibility standa…

From GoToSocial

Related thoughts

Short posts about testing, matched by topic hashtags.

  • #testing
Finding related thoughts…