Disclaimer - This post is about the announcement of my pet project - http://www.iCheckWebsite.com

From past few weeks I was focusing on my pet project, iCheckWebsite.com. I was wearing many hats - product owner, scrum master, designer, occasional developer and tester. It was fun and our shiny new version is live now :-) Wearing so many hats was/is difficult and to be honest - it probably means compromising little bit. But hey, it’s okay for self funded start-ups to compromise a little bit. Iterations are not long and hopefully in every new iteration - product will become better and better.

So let me explain what is iCheckWebsite, it’s core idea and how it could be extremely useful for testers working in the web application domain.

iCheckWebsite is an on-demand test automation and content monitoring tool for websites . iCheckWebsite makes it extremely easy to test and monitor content of websites ...

So if you have not noticed already, we have moved from Joomla now. TestingGeek is now hosted on Google App Engine and utilizes the power of a powerful web development framework, Django. Have a look at new and improved TestingGeek and let me know what do you think about it.

Joomla was a good CMS and it did work for me quite well, but it was a bit restrictive. I wanted to improvise it from a long time, but lack of time and little motivation to dwell into PHP always restricted me. However, things were changed last year, when I started our Test Lab and Development centre in Jodhpur, India.

We started working on the Python / Django and Google App Engine to develop two very interesting projects - iCheckWebsite and PlannedDeparture. iCheckWebsite makes it extremely easy to check and monitor website content for SEO, Accessibility and Quality and PlannedDeparture makes it ...