Please don't fix this with a technical solution.
There is some reason that your developers aren't engaged in the work. Figure out why they don't care about working code or the user experience and fix that.
If you plug the obvious holes, you won't have fixed your quality problems; you'll just shift them to the places where you won't notice them right away.
Re:Poll: Do you test your code?
by MartinCron on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:02PM
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Please don't fix this with a technical solution.
I can't agree more with wpietri above. There surely is a non-technical problem at play. That isn't to say that you shouldn't try to automate your babysitting, but if your need for babysitting is that severe, you have other problems.
Re:Poll: Do you test your code?
by ChrisNorstrom on Saturday March 17, 2012 @12:28PM
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Thank you both. I will not forget these pieces of advice.
I'll just leave this here. http://saucelabs.com/
Re:Poll: Do you test your code?
by mootothemax on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @12:03PM
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Selenium is not the prettiest tool out there, but as the homepage says, Selenium automates browsers, making it ideal for running tests that you describe:
I think https://stillalive.com/ will do what you want.
Their landing page is a little weak but I dig their UI for setting up tests.
I think you could use something like like selenium? Should be fairly easy to test the basic things you would normally do manually.
that's exactly what we offer at http://testingbot.com
you can upload a bunch of Selenium tests, indicate when you want to run them and we'll send alerts if a test fails.
You should check out saucelabs.com
I wish someone could make a simple service that allows me to set up my web app, set up test parameters that it tests each and every time, and tell me if it failed or not. I want to automate my babysitting.