[HELP] Big Company website testing

[Kryten]

VM's can run in a variety of guises - pretty much in the same way as terminal servers, all the way down to what you and I might use at home on VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation. The VM does what it's told, it sits at a particular resolution, it's no different to having different users using different size screens, resolutions etc etc etc. In fact it makes it more ideal, as it's easier to change things like resolution and screen size without physically doing anything.

[MYstIC G]

tell them to take screenshots of their shit with browsershots.org

[Chilly]

kenny: I work for probably one of the biggest uk online businesses and we do a load of testing via VMs and real boxes. Your dev team are spouting bullshit, I can assure you.

[DaGaffer]

Originally Posted by Vae

If they only want them for testing websites can't they just have a few laptops on a wireless network conenction from their own desks?

That's what we do. Less hassle than getting IT (who by definition smell of wee, YOU ALL DO) involved.

[Ctuchik]

Originally Posted by DaGaffer

That's what we do. Less hassle than getting IT (who by definition smell of wee, YOU ALL DO) involved.

next you point them to this thread and tell em to read it

encourage them to register and post here aswell....

[TdC]

Originally Posted by DaGaffer

That's what we do. Less hassle than getting IT (who by definition smell of wee, YOU ALL DO) involved.

that's six kinds of wrong. a PROPER it dept would never allow such a thing. besides, a PROPER it dept would be clued into your wishes and have standard lappys available for you to break.

[DaGaffer]

Originally Posted by TdC

that's six kinds of wrong. a PROPER it dept would never allow such a thing. besides, a PROPER it dept would be clued into your wishes and have standard lappys available for you to break.

heh. Satire.

[Dark Orb Choir]

pleae do not use the words Proper and IT in the same sentance, it makes baby Jesus cry, its like military intelligence etc IT DOES NOT COMPUTE

[TdC]

it pains me to think what manner of idiots you people are forced to consort with

[rynnor]

Interesting thread - if I may take a dissenting view I'd say that small and medium companies would use virtualisation but large companies would test against a host of different physical machines with different OS/browsers etc.

Testing using virtual machines is cheap and pretty effective but if you really want high quality testing you would use it hand in hand with real machines.

[Chilly]

if its just interface testing then there really is no case for physical boxes these days. I can imagine scenarios where the network has been poorly configured for the VMs and you might have problems loading css from a CDN or some such nonsense but that'snothing to do with the actual VM.

[yaruar]

vm's are the greatest thing ever invented for testing, being able to snapshot and clone and tinker and kill and rebuild as much as youo want to alter the testing environment is a godsend. I tend to throw up a vm every time i want to test an individual email application because i cba to install it and remove it to re set it up from scratch, much rather start from a virgin os every time.