Crowdsourcing JavaScript Testing

snitch writes "John Resig, creator of the jQuery JavaScript library, has released Test Swarm, a platform for distributed continuous integration testing for client-side JavaScript. Frustrated with traditional JavaScript testing environments that don't scale, John's new project, which is currently in private alpha, aims to provide a system for outsourcing browser-related testing to large groups of people or communities."

Trendsourcing

[MrEricSir]

Def. trendsource
-verb: to solve problems using popular buzzwords

("The developers trendsourced the project by integrating crowdsourcing with Agile methodologies automated with a SOAP communication layer.")

Coincidentally...

[pushing-robot]

I happen to be working on "A system for euphemising poor coding practices using the latest buzzwords". It'll be awesome!

Seriously, who needs a "crowd" at all? There are only a handful of popular browsers. They'd be much better off running tests in-house until they feel their code is rock solid.

From TFA:

100 tests in 12 browsers run on every commit by a human is just insane.

And uploading your code to a public server on every commit and twiddling your thumbs waiting for good samaritans to randomly log in with various browsers and test it for you is...sane?

Re:private alpha == Vaporware

[acidrainx]

Knowing John Resig, I doubt this is vaporware. He's come up with some really amazing stuff and is constantly posting interesting JavaScript tidbits and information for developing real production code on his blog [ejohn.org].