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A bar chart showing the volume of search traffic over a 30 day period whilst highlighting an increase on a particular day which the Evergrande story broke.

Stop! Drop everything you’re doing.

The importance of finding your ‘Drop Dead Metric’ whilst experimenting on an established product.

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A faster FT.com

by Matt Chadburn & Gadi Lahav

How slow websites damage publishers revenue

The FT is building a new version of its website.

Conventional wisdom states that web performance matters and the emphasis of new technical standards…

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Can We Test It? Yes We Can

by Keith Hatton

Hopefully as developers who practice more-or-less test driven development, the excuse that “this code isn’t really testable” should always be challenged these days — indeed, one definition of “legacy code” is “code without test cases”. But…

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Alerting for Brains

by Simon Gibbs

Here is the output of our production monitoring. Please read this information and answer the question below:

Ready?

Please name all 3 servers that are currently in a critical state.

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QuickStart Software Development

by Martin Roddam

What is QuickStart?

Here at the FT we have been trialling a new method (at least for us!) of beginning a software development project. Essentially, the entire team (developers, testers, product owners)…

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Improvements To FT.com Content Functional Tests

by Ammar Hassan

Did you read Martin Roddam’s blog post? If not, it’s well worth a look before you read this blog post. He explained the automated testing on our current CMS (content management system) for FT.com. He also…

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Issues working with large legacy automation test suites and how (we think) we got it right the next time

by Martin Roddam

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Mobile Testing: The Uphill Struggle

by Chris Bower

The Early Days

When the Financial Times launched its first Mobile Web App in 2009, little was known about the potential impact mobile platforms would have on the way we consume news…