Non-functional requirements, such as page load speed, accessibility and search engine optimisation are often tested towards the end of a project. We know this to be an outdated approach, but the reality is, running a full suite of these types tests…
Between ice cream licks and trying to subtly wipe away sweat drips, here’s some stuff we’ve read this week.
Headless Browser Testing is a way to run a browser in a headless environment. Essentially, running Chrome without chrome! It brings all modern web platform features provided by Chromium and the Blink rendering engine to the command line. Other…
An evening of testing workflows and dynamically built forms awaited visitors to Code Node last Wednesday when the London React Meetup was once again in town. Tom Duncalf kicked things off by describing what he has found to be effective unit and…
As you may or may not be aware the team at Red Badger has been hard at work crafting away at the new Fortnum & Mason e-commerce website. It has also recently been nominated for the best customer experience award at the BT tech & ecom awards (…
In any kind of tech development, knowledge is power. When working on an ecommerce site, knowledge is essential.
The first half of 2013 has reinforced Red Badger’s belief in polyglot architectures and solutions built from small, sharp tools.
There’s something built into us that drives us to automate everything. Every manual thing we don’t have to do frees us up to do something more exciting and useful.
Setting Business goals, gathering requirements and providing specifications are fundamental activities of product development. However these activities are only partially covered by traditional Agile methodologies, which tell us how to build…
On Friday last week (that is the 4th of May 2012 just in case you are reading this in 2013) we spent an excellent day up in the BBC’s plush new MediaCity, Salford offices with a bunch of BBC folk, other start-ups and generally bright, vibrant…
All software development companies have a requirement to continually ensure the quality of their product, this becomes more difficult as a product grows and the need for changes to the system evolve. Changes including; functional improvements, code…
At Red Badger, we’re huge fans of the cloud and we try to persuade our clients to be too. Where possible, we base the products/services that we are developing on cloud infrastructure for its many obvious advantages. Birdsong, our popular Windows…