Posted on: April 23rd, 2012 by Rob Stevenson-Leggett | 2 Comments
In this post I will walk through how to get started with some simple unit tests using QUnit as the test framework and Sinon.js as a mocking framework. A few months ago I wrote about the Google Analytics Event Tracking jQuery Plugin that we released as open source. Recently, Google made an addition to the [...]
Posted on: December 8th, 2011 by Andy Todd | 1 Comment
2011 has been a busy year for our team of .NET developers. About 18 months ago we started working with the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with the brief of re-platforming their extensive research catalogue from a bespoke database held in SQL Server to a brand new standards-based repository system being developed by [...]
Posted on: November 17th, 2011 by Rob Stevenson-Leggett | 1 Comment
What Google Analytics Plugin? It’s a jQuery plugin I wrote to try to standardise and simplify the way event tracking is implemented on a website. It makes use of HTML5 data attributes and jQuery to try and minimise the effort and cross cutting concerns that tracking often puts into a project. Note: A number of [...]
Posted on: August 2nd, 2011 by Christine Houlding | No Comments
It’s not unusual, even in this day and age that many digital agencies still do not have sophisticated test teams, and many developers out there have never had the experience of working with testers. Therefore, when a tester or test team is introduced, is it common at first to find integrating with the development team a challenge…
Posted on: February 2nd, 2011 by Christine Houlding | 4 Comments
Testing software is an integral part of building a system. However, no matter how well the code has been written, if the software is based on inaccurate requirements then the outcome will be unsatisfactory. Many defects can be traced back to wrong, missing, vague or incomplete requirements. My first blog post will explain how Building [...]
Posted on: January 13th, 2011 by Andy Todd | 7 Comments
We’re big fans of the Lucene search engine at Building Blocks, and in particular Solr and Nutch. We regularly have to set up new instances and integrate them so have documented the process on our intranet, which we think others may find useful.