Tom Maslen is a web developer working in the Visual Journalism team for BBC News. A keen Spicy Monster Munch fan, he’s dynamite between the sheets and most people’s best friend. Every Sunday he does his Nan’s weekly big shop for her. He’s an angel.
Back then, when every home had broadband and before anyone had a smartphone, we were living in the Golden Age of web development. We never knew how easy our jobs were. Because of all the things we have to support now, testing has become really difficult and also super-expensive. Now with responsive web design, we have at least 15 browsers working on a myriad of different-sized devices, with many different input types, multiple pixel resolutions and hugely varying connection speeds. There must be a better way to deal with the problem that responsive design has created for testing. In this article, Tom Maslen will devise a testing strategy so that you don’t have to test every device every time you want to update a live website.
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