How-to quality assurance work week browsers testing Guerrilla QA for Tiny Teams

• By Tracie Lee
• Serious Eats

QA can be okay. We promise. Here’s how Serious Eats makes QA happen, even with a small team.

Tool SlimerJS testing ImageMagick Ruby PhantomJS responsive design regression CSS Responsive CSS Testing Made Simple with the BBC’s Wraith

• By David Blooman, John Cleveley, Erin Kissane, Simon Thulbourn
• David Blooman, John Cleveley, Simon Thulbourn
• BBC News

Last November, the BBC News team created a front-end regression tool that collects and diffs screenshots to automatically highlight discrepancies produced (intentionally or otherwise) by CSS changes. Last week, the team open-sourced Wraith. We spoke with David Blooman, who developed the tool last fall and worked with Simon Thulbourn to prepare it for public release.

Project analysis JRuby OpenNLP JSON Under the Hood of the Open Gender Tracker

• By Erin Kissane, J. Nathan Matias, Irene Ros
• Adam Hyland, J. Nathan Matias, Irene Ros
• Bocoup, MIT Center for Civic Media

Open Gender Tracker is an open source deployable content analysis service funded by a Knight Foundation Prototype grant. We spoke with its creators about the project’s origins, technical specifications, and possible future in and near newsrooms.