The Specificity Graph

The Specificity Graph is a very simple model for diagrammatically assessing the overall health of your codebase in terms of specificity—a way of looking at an entire project’s CSS and highlighting any potentially troublesome areas of higher-than-ideal specificity. We can then use this snapshot to refactor and rearchitect old projects into a better shape, or …

phpspec

phpspec is a development tool, designed to help you achieve clean and working PHP code by using a technique derived from test-first development called (spec) behaviour driven development, or SpecBDD. Example spec file: <?php namespace spec; use PhpSpec\ObjectBehavior; class MarkdownSpec extends ObjectBehavior { function it_converts_plain_text_to_html_paragraphs() { $this->toHtml("Hi, there")->shouldReturn("<p>Hi, there</p>"); } } Running it is easy: …

Huxley – Catching visual regressions in Web applications.

This content is quite old. You might want to check out this modern way of visual diffing, using Puppeteer instead Watches you browse, takes screenshots, tells you when they change. First you record a basic flow and take screenshots in between. Afterwards, when you’ve done some changes, you can let the flow play back again, …

Wraith – A responsive screenshot comparison tool

This content is quite old. You might want to check out this modern way of visual diffing, using Puppeteer instead Wraith uses either PhantomJS, CasperJS or SlimerJS to create screen-shots of webpages on different environments and then creates a diff of the two images, the affected areas are highlighted in blue By the folks over …

DummyJS – Smart Functional Testing extension for PhantomJS

open http://my.test.site type :text John click “Say hi!” assertText .greeting Hi, John! $ dummyjs mytest.dummy ✓ open http://my.test.site ✓ type :text John ✓ click “Say hi!” ✓ assertText .greeting Hi, John! PASS: Executed 4 actions in 1s. DummyJS makes writing and running automated functional tests for websites and webapps incredibly easy. Tests can be run …

TDCSS – Super simple styleguide tool

TDCSS helps you write and document solid, maintainable and modular CSS. It’s especially well suited to adopt a test-driven approach to CSS styling – but of course you may just as well use it to build a regular online styleguide. Not too sure about calling this test-driven though, as the verificiation process is not automated …

Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)

The Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) is a C++ implementation of a high-performance routing engine for shortest paths in road networks. It combines sophisticated routing algorithms with the open and free road network data of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project. OSRM is able to compute and output a shortest path between any origin and destination within …

Vemödalen

Vemödalen – n. the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist —the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye — which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you …