Service Manual testing requirement changes for Internet Explorer 11
In this blog post, we explain the decision behind changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 11 in the Service Manual.
Tools
Upgrading Celery on GOV.UK Notify
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David McDonald, Tech Lead, GOV.UK Notify and Karl Chillmaid, Senior Content Designer, GOV.UK Notify, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Notify, Tools
How we improved Notify’s performance by upgrading the software we use, and what we learned along the way.
Introducing the government’s Chief Technology Officer Council
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Dan Bailey, CTO, CDDO, Posted on:
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CTO Council, Open Source, Open Standards, Security, Tools, Transformation
Central Digital and Data Office's new Chief Technology Officer, Dan Bailey, outlines plans for the Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the CTO Council.
A new standard of testing for GOV.UK
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Ben Thorner, Developer, GDS and Peter Hartshorn, Developer, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Tools
How we consolidated the testing landscape for GOV.UK into a small number of practical rules that are bringing a new consistency to the way we test our code.
What I learned when I moved from content design to technical writing
Mark Green, a lead technical writer at the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), discusses the similarities and differences between technical writing and content design.
Automatically creating and rotating GOV.UK application secrets
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Bill Franklin - Senior Developer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Security, Tools
How we reduced toil when managing infrastructure for 50 applications.
How we reduced errors on GOV.UK
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Chris Ashton, senior developer, GDS and Tim Motz, product manager, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Jobs, Tools
All websites run into errors. We’ve reduced our errors by over 90% and changed our culture around errors so they are identified, owned and resolved quickly.
Wheel of Misfortune: Incident rehearsal for GOV.UK PaaS
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Jenny Sleeman, GOV.UK PaaS delivery manager, GDS and Lee Porte, GOV.UK PaaS tech lead, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK PaaS, Security, Tools
Rehearsing for incidents with replica environments to perform hands on investigations takes a lot of setting up. The GOV.UK Platform as a Service team wanted to see if they could get a lot of the value with a reduced amount of setup time and cost.
To build or to buy - that's the technology question
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Amina Omar, GDS Technology Policy Advisor, Posted on:
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Tools, Transformation
We’ve updated the purchasing strategy guidance in the Technology Code of Practice, to offer more advice of when to buy and when to build.
Getting the Document Checking Service ready for take-off
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Alex Wilson, tech lead, DCS and Pippa Clark, technical writer, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Verify, Tools, Transformation
To prepare for the Document Checking Service (DCS) pilot we built out several new capabilities in the service and published our first API documentation powered by user testing.
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