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  • Debugging Travis builds

    Important Update December 19, 2013 — Travis infrastructure has changed since this post was written. This post remains unchanged for posterity; however, be aware that this setup no longer represents the current state of Travis. Yeti uses Travis CI to the max by spawning lots of PhantomJS processes that are tested asynchronously. When tests start…

  • Checkpoint

    When I travel home to Illinois, I frequently will work on Yeti for a few days and meetup with Dav. On this trip I’ve done both at the same time. I’ll meetup with him again tomorrow, hoping to finish up some test automation greatness before we take a break for Christmas. This time of year…

  • Yeti at YUIConf

    Markandey Singh posted a short video of my YUIConf 2012 talk. Dav Glass is seen running around with a camera to show the audience YUI animation tests running with Yeti on various devices. Dav shipped 5 tablets, 1 phone, and an AirPort Extreme to California to make this demo happen. The Write Code That Works…

  • Write Code That Works

    Dav Glass and I visited the Yammer office in San Francisco this week to discuss build & test tools we use at YUI. We showed off Shifter for building YUI, Grover for testing headlessly, Yeti for testing in browsers, and Istanbul for statement-level code coverage. We use Travis for running most of this stuff in…

  • Best Trumps Easy

    I work at Yahoo!, building open source software. I build Yeti, but I work alongside the team building YUI. The engineers who built this team, and continue to work on this team, are the reason I have chosen to stay at Yahoo! building Yeti: they choose what’s best over what’s easiest. You work with people…