I’ll Take That Cheap Shot

A frequent contributor points me to CleverTester.com which isn’t half as clever as one would hope.

It’s a coming soon testing site or magazine, and all it has is a front page with a form on it to collect e-mail addresses.  With a JavaScript error on it:

That's not exactly 'clever.'
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And if you click the button without entering data, there’s no validation.

Have another blank e-mail on me.
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Put this in the same category as interactive agencies or development shops that have Web sites that suck.  Still in the mindset of first to market instead of solid performer to market.

 

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  1. Isarian Says:
    June 1st, 2009 at 10:09 am

    Interestingly enough, they DO validate actual input (“You Fail It” does not work), but DO NOT validate the field when it is empty. I wonder if they are sanitizing this input in other ways…

  2. The Director Says:
    June 1st, 2009 at 11:22 am

    You’re doing QA wrong. You find the problems, you don’t diagnose them. Otherwise you’ll let on to the developers that maybe we’re not dumber than a sack of dull hammers.

  3. Isarian Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    Then I’ve been suckered – my boss has offloaded problem discovery, diagnosis, and patch testing on me. I would mind this less if the developers bothered testing their own changes, especially our web front-end developer, as I find browser-specific bugs that would have easily been exposed by a little leg work regularly.

    Now to go fake a cortical brain injury…

  4. pberry Says:
    June 18th, 2009 at 2:29 am

    It’s Web Form Testing 101 though isn’t it? Don’t touch the form, just click [Sumbit] and observe. You’d think developers would be wise to our tricks by now.

  5. The Director Says:
    June 18th, 2009 at 6:53 am

    It does make SQA all too easy that they never learn. We never have to find new tricks because the developers fall for the old ones.