The Web Services team at CIM was founded in 2009 when the QA team decided to perform early testing—really early testing.
So early, in fact, that the QA Web Services engineers attended scrums with the developers and set up a development environment where the code from all the developers was integrated at least once a day. [...]
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Web Services testing at CIM
Professional Development
Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) is a group within Comcast Cable that built the XfinityTv website and mobile apps, apart from other sites. I have been working here for close to 5 years now and joined when XfinityTv was still in its infancy. But this post is not about work at CIM but one of the [...]
Continuous testing with Subversion, Hudson and Selenium grid
I got very excited about Continuous testing while working on the CIM Infrastructure team in 2008. I built out a prototype of an infrastructure with my team and then was asked to build out an entire Continuous testing lab for QA. I posted the knowledge I gained on a blog and the Selenium grid folks [...]
People and Culture
CIM is an exciting place to work. We have the feel of a small company with everything happening very fast but we don’t worry about our next paycheck coming through. Some of the web sites we develop include Xfinity.com, Comcast.net and Fancast.com (Xfinity TV).
There is no such thing as working on your own on a [...]