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Posted March 28, 2014

Open Source Stories: Q & amp; A with Lo-Dash

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As you may already know,we LOVE open source. That & # x27; s why we created Open Sauce; a way to afford open source labor the ability to quiz their projects for free on our cloud.

In the span of a year, we now have over 800 OSS projection testing on Sauce! To lionize, we ’ re exploring some of the different projects tested on Sauce with a mini serial of Q & amp; A & # x27; s with user who experience produced notable projects using Unfastened Sauce.

Today we & # x27; re featuring an interview with John-David Dalton ofLo-Dash. Get the scoop below.

What is your OSS project, and what is its finish?Lo-Dash is a utility library with an accent on consistency, customization, & amp; execution.

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What kind of testing perform the project do, both on and off Sauce?On Sauce we automate testing of Lo-Dash in bequest, compat, mobile, modern, & amp; underscore builds (non-minified/minified and modularized AMD builds of each) against Lo-Dash/Underscore/Backbone unit tests. We test against IE6-11, old and new Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. We even test IE compat modes. Off Sauce we automate testing in Node, Narwhal, Phantomjs, Rhino, Rhino -require, & amp; Ringo.

How has examine with Open Sauce helped the project?Testing used to consist of ~2 day of manual testing. With Sauce & amp; its parallel chore quiz is automatize to ~30 minutes.

Do you have any advice regarding testing for other open source projection?Do it. Start small and build then pretty soon you & # x27; ll get a skillful collection of tests. They & # x27; ll save you so much grief and build trust with your users/developers.

What & # x27; s next for the project?We are building up to our v3.0 release with lots of feature & amp; some change. Check out our roadmaphttps: //github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/Roadmap

How can people learn more about the undertaking or get involved?They can go tolodash.com or http: //github.com/lodash/lodash

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