Canonical test podcasts: How to test your podcast app against difficult cases

3043 days ago • 2 views • Joe Clark, Toronto • joeclark.org

Are you the creator, programmer, or quality-tester of a podcasting application? This page provides a range of podcasts that exemplify a range of atypical use case from merely uncommon to exceedingly fringe. If your app can handle all these, you’re doing well.

Remember: Your app will be used to listen to potentially thousands of podcasts you’ve never heard of (or would ever choose to listen to yourself). Quality testing is about other people, in this case your users or customers.

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Accessibility

A difficult and potentially wide-ranging topic.

  • At the very least, make sure blind people can use your podcast app with system accessibility features. A reasonable test case is one of the many blind podcasts out there, like Maccessibility (their RSS), which not only uses chapter markers but features guests who complain about inaccessible podcasting apps.

At the very least, make sure blind people can use your podcast app with system accessibility features. A reasonable test case is one of the many blind podcasts out there, like Maccessibility (their RSS), which not only uses chapter markers but features guests who complain about inaccessible podcasting apps.

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