Stating the obvious: QA efforts for IE rising
It is a well known fact that software products that are actively used by its developers are in general better than those not (adding fake data and playing around doesn't count). This methodology to reduce QA efforts is also known as "eating your own dog food" or nicer "drinking your own champagne".
Creating more complex web applications requires constant testing in various browsers. This being a painful problem in the industry for a while, I had to learn - it got a step harder since this year! Your hardly find a web developer that voluntarily use Internet Explorer 6 as it's primary browser. Ignoring the fact that the majority of the web users are still using this so called browser (for generally good reasons), but with the result that sites might not really work fine in IE anymore (without larger QA efforts and longer feature development times..).
How to solve this? You can't force anybody to use IE as primary browser?
What will happen in 2 years.. still left with legacy 50% IE6 usage? I guess I need to hire a I-forever-love-IE6-QA-Hero to rest my nerves...
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Creating more complex web applications requires constant testing in various browsers. This being a painful problem in the industry for a while, I had to learn - it got a step harder since this year! Your hardly find a web developer that voluntarily use Internet Explorer 6 as it's primary browser. Ignoring the fact that the majority of the web users are still using this so called browser (for generally good reasons), but with the result that sites might not really work fine in IE anymore (without larger QA efforts and longer feature development times..).
How to solve this? You can't force anybody to use IE as primary browser?
What will happen in 2 years.. still left with legacy 50% IE6 usage? I guess I need to hire a I-forever-love-IE6-QA-Hero to rest my nerves...
Technorati Tags: qualityassurance ie6 testing
We solve that this way: Our sales & marketing crew mostly work with IE and Microsoft. They use it everyday, so the chance they see IE-only bugs is high.
Of course this is only one channel. The users themselves (allthough they do not tell a lot of bugs) or log analysis are other channels to locate errors or bugs.
Posted by
2ni |
June 16, 2006 9:37 AM
I believe finding the bugs is not really the problem. But working out ways for IE to handle the site while staying compliant to standards is.
So if you happen to find the unthinkable(someone who knows all the ie weaknesses and how to fix them but actually likes ie anyway...) please have him/her cloned! I'd say you'd get rich selling 'em.
Posted by
Andi |
June 16, 2006 2:20 PM
I use IE as primary browser.....
Posted by
Dawn |
June 19, 2006 5:19 PM
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