Archives for “qa”

Fast Post-Mortems

When it’s time for a post-mortem meeting, do people in your office groan and make excuses? Do your coworkers complain that they’re too busy with client work to attend? Do post-mortems feel like a chore with no payoff? I think everyone agrees that post-mortems are a great idea, in theory. When you finish a project, [...]


IE8 Compatibility Mode and IE7 are Not the Same Thing

Just so we’re clear, testing your website in an actual copy of IE7, and testing in IE8′s Compatibility Mode are not the same thing. Compatibility Mode does an acceptable job of imitating IE7, and for the average user who’s just trying to fix a site that looks broken under IE8, it’s good enough. However, there [...]