Good idea. No Mac version yet.

"Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating system. Unfortunately, setting these virtual machines up without Microsoft's VirtualPC can be extremely difficult. These scripts aim to facilitate that process using VirtualBox on Linux or OS X. With a single command, you can have IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9 running in separate virtual machines."

Of course I find this a day after I finish rebuilding all my VMs from scratch by hand.

Good basis for a testing platform.

Aha! The missing tool.

fazalkhan: Holmes is stand-alone diagnostic CSS that can highlight potentially invalid or erroneous HTML markup by adding 1 class. http://bit.ly/j3r0bb

Redmine fork.

"A new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction. The Fake Workflows you create can be saved, reopened, and shared."

Remote/crowd-sourced software testing (using a community of testers, not random people) . Like the sound of this.

"A member of the xUnit family of testing frameworks and provides both a framework that makes the writing of tests easy as well as the functionality to easily run the tests and analyse their results."

"Allows you to adjust the text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels as well as color settings both globally (for all sites) and per site."

"Bitten is a Python-based framework for collecting various software metrics via continuous integration. It builds on Trac to provide an integrated web-based user interface."

"The QA style sheet highlights specific HTML problems like use of deprecated elements, inaccessible images, layout tables, empty elements, or styling-related maintenance issues. Theoretically, it is “unobtrusive” in a sense that when everything’s fine it won’t cause any visible changes."

"Extensible continuous integration engine"

Replaces MultipleIE

"Tests your website designs across 17 different Windows browsers right from your Mac desktop in seconds. No need for virtual machines, Windows licenses, or any messing around with Windows Update." Requires a litmus account.

"Allows you to compare different [IE] rendering engines in a single unified interface"

"IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany."

"I've been reading about unit testing for jQuery and wonder if an analagous approach could be used on a CSS system. Probably not, but a style guide featuring every type of box, unit, module and typographic style on the site can quickly allow you to not only see if any changes you make have knock-on or regression errors, but allow you to see what your styles imply."

"We give you FULL ADMINISTRATIVE ACCESS to the operating system. While our primary focus is cross-browser testing, you actually have full control over the configuration. When you disconnect, the virtual instance goes away and so does any trace of your wor

"Sifter is designed to be bug and issue tracker for designers and non-technical people. However, we're pretty optimistic that technical people will like it too."

Please read this if you do front-end work. Then read t'others in series.

"When testing time came around, we found a way to make it fun… QA Deathmatch." Fun being a relative term in this instance.

Should be testing their own site first, I think.

CSS and HTML validators, SEO tools, Social services, Web proxies, Network tools, Text tools, Image tools (works only with Image URLs)

"An offshore software development company based in Eastern Europe."

"A free, open-source functional testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It is pronounced water."

"Collaborative test planning that’s just simple enough."

"Opera now includes a developer console that can be added into the browser with many new features. The developer console includes new tools including DOM inspector, JavaScript inspector, CSS editor and HTTP header inspector."

"Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work."

"See how your email newsletters look in a wide range of different email clients, and webmail systems."

"Scott talks about his experience with functional testing tools including TestComplete by AutomatedQA."

"Two services: a Safari screenshots generator (free) and a testing system based on VNC (paid)."

"Bad ideas that get in the minds of standards-based developers"

"An alternative Bugzilla client. It is a desktop application with interactive user interface and unique capabilities that are a valuable addition to the feature-rich web-based Bugzilla software."

"It became very clear to me just how inadequate [checking against WCAG, using simple tests like increasing text size, browsing with Lynx, and navigating with keyboard] was in truly determining whether or not the site was accessible"