Testing javascript heavy, web frontends remains a hard problem in software development. Everyone wants to do it in order to be agile, but few if none can really do an ideal job of it. Some key reasons they want to automate are:
allow developers to quickly smoke test their work before they commit it
support extensive, […]
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For one of the startups I’ve been involved with we used Trac as a quick way to support “development”. But Trac is very limited and problematic. We choose because it’s free, and a number of successful opensource projects use it. It works pretty well for supporting developers and an open environment, […]
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The key to performing a technical due diligence is an understanding of the business goals that are driving the audit. To perform the audit well requires discipline to listen and the knowledge to ask the right questions that will uncover what is going on. A simple methodology is helpful as a guide to […]
Tags: Business Zeitgeist / Web 2.0 · Project Management · Startups
We’re working with a rag-tag fleet of development folks: programmers, admins, designers and so forth. Amongst the challenges is that as we bootstrap our development it is a huge challenge for the folks we’re working with to be as committed as we are. For many of them this work is part-time and they […]
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Enjoying the ends of small and large scale development is a matter of appreciating issues of all scale.