Gatling is an open-source, Scala based load testing tool. It offers a simple proxy based web recorder for following user journeys, or alternatively you can codify the user journey via Gatling’s Scala based DSL.
More …We had a huge bug on the live site, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news, the navigation for our Asia edition was broken. Most of the links in the navigation were 404ing, we had user complaints and there was a lot of “how did this make it to Live?”
More …I recently setup a Nginx proxy server on a UK based provider, this is to test UK centric features of the BBC News website. We use AWS for most of our tooling, so adding a couple of extra options on AWS to enable this testing seemed like the best approach. Not quite.
More …Sometimes you need to show someone something on a phone, words are just not good enough. With testing moving more to mobile, having the ability to show a colleague the issue has become a little harder. Google introduced screencasting in Android 4.4, a way to record everything you do on screen. Great, but that makes a big video that is difficult to look at on Github, so lets convert that video into a GIF.
More …I recently got Battlefield 4, an intensive first person shooter with high detail graphics and enough shooting to satisfy any teenage angst. I purchased the game on the PC, meaning I am locked into EA’s(Electronic Arts) distribution software called Origin. This software enables buying, trading, chatting, it also has a social aspect in the form of profile pages, but it also has an inbuilt web browser. This browser isn’t actually accessible from the Windows desktop, it is designed for use within the game itself.
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