Friday 5: 5 Free QA Webtools
Happy Friday! Welcome back to Episode 14 of The Mediacurrent Friday 5.
This week, our very cheerful and animated QA Lead Chris Manning joins host Mark Casias to discuss 5 Free QA Webtools.
Pixel 'Perfection' Front-End Development
What is 'pixel perfect'?
Pixel perfection is when the finished coded page and the design file are next to each other, you can not tell them apart. To quote Brandon Jones :
...so precise, so pristine, so detailed that the casual viewer can’t tell the difference.
Build your QA Department: Laying a Foundation
With 15 years of experience in the Information Technology field and 10 of those years focused on leadership, I’ve learned first hand the value of investing in people and setting them up for success. Before joining Mediacurrent, I started a QA department from scratch and grew it to its current size. Prior to that, I built an IT team. If you're an incoming leader, here's how to start building your own QA/IT department.
Using VMs for Quick and Reliable QA
When cross-browser testing a website, you clearly need access to the relevant browsers. While it’s possible to run Internet Explorer in different rendering modes, why not use a solution that runs the native app in an environment that allows you to reset the browsers to a known clean slate and will reproduce all of the font rendering issues that you’d like to catch?
Webinar: 5 Easy Ways to QA Your Site
Quality Assurance is usually a scary term but it doesn't have to be. In this previously recorded webinar, I'll walk you through five easy steps you can do (and tools you can use) to turn out a better product (web site).
This talk does tie in with Drupal but you don't have to be a Drupal expert. This session should be useful for content admins, themers, developers and just about anybody who has to work on a web site.