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> proper context. That's not 'tests' — tests would be something like Mocha, or Jasmine — what you're actually talking about here is one of the many forms of ad
by jimsmart 8y ago
> proper context.
That's not 'tests' — tests would be something like Mocha, or Jasmine — what you're actually talking about here is one of the many forms of ad hoc in-browser debugging.
- yorwba 8y agoAutomatic tests are not the only way to test software, nor are they sufficient. Whether some software can actually be used is not something that's completely formalizable and so you can't test it automatically. You always need a human in the loop in the end, and alert is a legitimate tool to effortlessly display some additional information on internal state during an interactive user test.
- johnfn 8y ago> ad hoc in-browser debugging Ah, if only there was a single word - a verb perhaps - that developers could use to colloquially refer to this process!
- sametmax 8y agoNot testing the code, fidling with the stuff they are learning.