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On the buses - testing round up
We had over 1000 unique visits to the new buses system - thanks to everybody who took time to try it out. We've had bucket loads of feedback and I'd love to be able to address every one individually…
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How you can help us
When you visit our pages do you ever think 'there's a better way to do that', 'this information should be laid out differently', or even 'this is fantastic, just what I was looking for'? (We live in h…
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Increasing quality and releasing faster using automated testing
- our initial reason - proxy servers / rules - why we chose selenium - regression testing applications - automated pentesting - a further post dealing with the code / tech details
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Updates to shropshire.gov.uk
Today (28 June 2011) we released v5.0.4 of our website. To the casual visitor, this won't mean much, but for us this release brings about more improvements for the shropshire.gov.uk website & our…
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Using Jmeter - a true case study of performance, load and stress testing your web app
In depth detail about the issue we have - hr system Why we must do this testing - do we expect high volume - do we need to spend the money on a clustered system - backup and fall back offered by v…
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Designing for readability
We’ve had a lot of comments about the font size used on Shropshire.gov.uk, (some good, some bad - it was even highlighted by a reviewer in this year’s SOCITM Better Connected survey) and I wanted to w…
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Performance testing I/O through-put with IOMeter (In other words... are my disks fast enough?)
Disk speed is important I'm sure we all agree; - high performance dbs - what are we running (postgres for what - what sort of performance do we need) - what should we expect (some guidelines on mea…
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What do we do all day?
We are proud people/geeks/nerds here in IT Development and would like to share with the world what we actually do on a day to day basis, as Chris Jones stated in a previous post (why bother blogging):…