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Testacular - Spectacular Test Runner for JavaScript. The website monitoring service that doesn't suck. SubtleGradient/StandaloneWebInspector.app. JSCheck. Front-end Unit Testing with JavaScript | Danny Croft - Web Developer made in Wales but working in London  Unit testing can make your code less prone to bugs and gives you piece of mind that everything is working the way it should. Normally when I speak to other developers about work, we end up speaking about workflow, tools and release processes. I’m always surprised by the amount of front-end developers that don’t unit test their code. When asked why, they give the following answers: “I did have a look at Selenium, but it freaked me out.

“The back-end guys usually just do that” “I don’t really get time to do any of that kind of stuff but I’d like to” “Unit Testing? So rounding up the problems that people are facing, we get the following: Time and effort it takes to get setupComplex APIs and steep learning curvesGeneral lack of exposure Introducing PhantomJS & CasperJS PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. If you’re thinking “headless WebKit??!!?” CasperJS makes it alot easier for you to navigate around a web page testing as you go. Getting Started! Requirements: Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Sikuli: Free UI Testing Software. By sid on January 9, 2011 | Sponsored Links Sikuli is a free software to test User Interface for its efficiency. Sikuli is a visual technology which automates the user’s activities to test the interface.

The Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) can be tested for its functionality and efficiency with the help of screenshots and interface images. The webpage and the interface can be controlled programmatically to perform the testing. Sikuli includes the sikuli script which is a visual API, and the Sikuli IDE( Integrated Development Environment) for writing scripts with screenshots alone. An interface can be tested on various operating systems like Windows, Mac, Linux. Sponsored Links Sikuli is even regarded as the most simple and innovative tool to write scripts to test the interfaces. Sikuli provides quite an innovative scripting feature to do programming by referencing screenshots. Some other testing software we reviewed earlier include: XStudio, QMTest, and Cross Browser testing tools. Dirty Markup · Tidy and Beautify your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code. Robflaherty/Media-Query-test. AreWePlayingYet? — A pragmatic HTML5 Audio test suite. The UX Bookmark. Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools - Smashing UX Design.

Advertisement Usability and user experience testing is vital to creating a successful website, and only more so if it’s an e-commerce website, a complex app or another website for which there’s a definite ROI. And running your own user tests to find out how users are interacting with your website and where problems might arise is completely possible. But using one of the many existing tools and services for user testing is a lot easier than creating your own. Free, freemium and premium tools are out there, with options for most budgets. The important thing is to find a tool or service that works for your website and then use it to gather real-world data on what works and what doesn’t, rather than relying purely on instinct or abstract theories.

Free And Freemium Tools A ton of free and freemium tools are out there to test your website’s usability and user experience. Simple Mouse Tracking Mouse tracking is a great way to see how visitors are actually interacting with your website. (al)

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