Tag: Mocha

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CMS demand-side Frontend SPAs

Demand-side Internal Tooling

(CrowdFlower : 7/13-8/13)

The CrowdFlower platform is consumed via a number of microtasking sites. Each site registers and maintains its own users, but to better track unique identities across the CrowdFlower platform, we built a Single Page App in Ember.js to allow associating users across partner microtasking sites with one unique identifier in the CrowdFlower platform.

Results

  • Implemented a CRUD tool for managing users using Ember.js while iterating in conjunction with Product Manager as requirements changed.
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Architecture demand-side Frontend Innovation SPAs TDD

Improving QA with SPA

CrowdFlower : 4/13-7/13)

Test Questions are used as the gold standard of quality in the CF platform, but they can be laborious to create, particularly for work that’s periodically repeated.

As no templatized solution existed, a team of three of us (me as F2E, Product Manager, and Backend Engineer) tackled creation of an internal product to simplify the workflow.

The user flow was to create “Cases” of Test Questions that got sent to jobs as “Batches”; where the composite idea of a “Mold” encompassed all “Cases” and “Batches” for a particular set of target jobs.

(“The Forge” was the product’s original name, derived from a time when “Test Questions” were known as “Gold.”)

One of the more challenging aspects of the project was the testing of the app. Selenium has always been a robust solution for testing even JS-heavy experiences, but given its heft, Poltergeist was used instead.

The product was to eventually be made available externally but never was.

Results

  • Built internal workflow tool using Ember.js.