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Ask: Is it time to move all dev tools out of the browser (e.g. Firefox Dev)?
With the Chrome and Firefox tools growing bigger and better every day, is it time to turn the browser into an end-user only model? Would moving the dev tools into their own stand-alone application be a good or bad thing?
- trebor 12y agoIt would be a horrible thing. If I am designing a website to be used by an end-user I absolutely want to test like a user. It's the exact reason I use the IE virtual machine images from Modern.ie — IE emulation doesn't really work.
- smt88 12y agoThat's like Toyota asking if the they should stop test-driving their cars. The software industry should be moving _toward_ dogfooding whenever possible, not away from it. In terms of testing, the best scenarios are, in order of preference: 1) Using your own product the way your customers do. 2) Testing your own product the way your customers do. 3) Testing your product without real-world data. 4) Not testing your product. You're proposing that we move down to #4. Taking your tests out of the end-user environment is no longer testing your product.
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