Coping With The Broken Web

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1. Coping With The Broken Web Rodney Rehm - @rodneyrehm

2. Where I come from

3. http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/

4. http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/09/designing-javascript-apis-usability/

5. I like making stuff simple

6. … recently at work

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8. But…

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10. What do you mean by „broken“?

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15. <select> … been around for ages

16. Events triggered when clicking on <select> http://rodneyrehm.github.io/select-events/

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19. Assumptions… http://www.freefoto.com/preview/41-23-4/American-highway-road

20. … Reality http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8019/7597671400_9dcf23ab7a_o_d.jpg

21. Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the

    door. Lois McMaster Bujold

22. Despair? Opportunity!

23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mennonitechurchusa-archives/7597671400/in/set-72157630434425392

24. Grokking Results

25. Single result set

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27. Aggregate results

28. Beware of the flood

29. Summary and details

30. Tools?

31. Running Tests

32. Running tests

33. Running tests

34. Running tests

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40. https://github.com/rodneyrehm/testharness-helper

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42. Aggregating Results?

43. Storing results

44. Storing results

45. Test Environment?

46. (some) real devices!

47. (some) real devices!

48. virtual machines

49. virtual machines s

50. Which Browser Is This?

51. github.com/bestiejs/platform.js Identifying browsers

52. Utilities?

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54. Central System?

55. CSS WG HTML WG

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57. 64 % 24 % 11 % Approved In Review Unknown

58. Submitted in January

59. No Fun

60. Future?

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62. • identify and fix legal issues (who owns tests) •

    moving to github in progress • extract meta data from specifications for test coverage analysis and linking

63. • centralize test efforts across WGs • run tests in

    cloud and collect data • to build compatibility tables • show browser support in specifications, WebPlatform.org, anywhere

64. • use github for reviewing test suites • integrate adding

    tests into WebPlatform.org • make submitting bugs off a test dead simple • painless local development environment
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68. They‘re working on it!

69. Motivation?

70. your tests are run by W3C and browser vendors

71. collected data === articles, workshops, talks === street-cred

72. insights into specifications & credibility for mailing lists

73. You are part of the web, start caring for it!

74. When the web is not doing what you want it

    to, fight back, WRITE TESTS! Me, I think

75. Recap • testharness.js to run tests • firebase.io to aggregate

    data • real browsers, devices and BrowserStack • don‘t wait for W3C to get their testing sorted, have some fun now
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77. Thank You! Questions?

78. TestTheWebForward.org Join the Rebellion™