Category Archives: Web

Testing visual appearance with Cucumber + Watir

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Sampo J.

One of the great things about Cucumber and Watir is that it allows you to write functional tests that are decoupled of the UI.  By using page objects, the definition of how the UI works is decoupled from the tests … Continue reading →

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setImmediate, MessageChannel, postMessage broken on Internet Explorer 10

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Sampo J.

The JavaScript setImmedate function has been proposed and promoted as a faster alternative to setTimeout(fn, 0) (and cleaner than postMessage). While the HTML spec clamps setTimeout(fn, 0) to a minimum delay of 4 ms, setImmediate(fn) is defined to run the … Continue reading →

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CoffeeScript vs. TypeScript vs. Dart

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Sampo J.

Software often requires two or three iterations before you get it right.  In our case this led to starting a rewrite of our hybrid mobile application.  It had been developed over several years by a diverse group of people with … Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Web | Tagged , , , | 29 Comments