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Coping With The Broken Web
Rodney Rehm
August 29, 2013
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Coping With The Broken Web
A talk on testing browsers
http://2013.frontendconf.ch/
Rodney Rehm
August 29, 2013
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Coping With The Broken Web Rodney Rehm - @rodneyrehm
Where I come from
http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/09/designing-javascript-apis-usability/
I like making stuff simple
… recently at work
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But…
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What do you mean by „broken“?
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<select> … been around for ages
Events triggered when clicking on <select> http://rodneyrehm.github.io/select-events/
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Assumptions… http://www.freefoto.com/preview/41-23-4/American-highway-road
… Reality http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8019/7597671400_9dcf23ab7a_o_d.jpg
Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the
door. Lois McMaster Bujold
Despair? Opportunity!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mennonitechurchusa-archives/7597671400/in/set-72157630434425392
Grokking Results
Single result set
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Aggregate results
Beware of the flood
Summary and details
Tools?
Running Tests
Running tests
Running tests
Running tests
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https://github.com/rodneyrehm/testharness-helper
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Aggregating Results?
Storing results
Storing results
Test Environment?
(some) real devices!
(some) real devices!
virtual machines
virtual machines s
Which Browser Is This?
github.com/bestiejs/platform.js Identifying browsers
Utilities?
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Central System?
CSS WG HTML WG
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64 % 24 % 11 % Approved In Review Unknown
Submitted in January
No Fun
Future?
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• identify and fix legal issues (who owns tests) •
moving to github in progress • extract meta data from specifications for test coverage analysis and linking
• centralize test efforts across WGs • run tests in
cloud and collect data • to build compatibility tables • show browser support in specifications, WebPlatform.org, anywhere
• 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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They‘re working on it!
Motivation?
your tests are run by W3C and browser vendors
collected data === articles, workshops, talks === street-cred
insights into specifications & credibility for mailing lists
You are part of the web, start caring for it!
When the web is not doing what you want it
to, fight back, WRITE TESTS! Me, I think
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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Thank You! Questions?
TestTheWebForward.org Join the Rebellion™