Bocoup Web Platform Consulting

Web Platform Consulting

We help make the web platform open, predictable and inclusive.

We are a team of engineers and project managers with a track record shipping ambitious web applications. We work with product teams to ship to the web and with browser companies to treat the web platform as a single product.

Services

Technical Partnerships

For product teams seeking to increase development velocity, improve team collaboration, reduce technical debt, and decrease total cost of ownership.

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Reliability, Standards & Testing

For platform teams seeking to increase predictability, improve core engineering tools, and decrease reliance on proprietary infrastructure.

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Recent Projects

Finding & Fixing Bugs in Browser Compatibility

Web Navigation Compatibility | Mozilla

Mozilla's Firefox rendering team engaged us to search for incompatibilities between browsers and the HTML Navigation specification. We uncovered numerous bugs, including a rare one that affected all browsers.

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Extending the Official Test Suite for JavaScript

Test262 Support for V8 | Google

We collaborated with Google's Chrome V8 JavaScript engine team to extend Ecma Test262, the official test suite for the JavaScript language, through implementing tests and building smarter tooling for managing feature compliance across an increasingly large landscape of runtimes.

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Operationalizing a University IT Department

Deployment Predictability for College IT | Boston College

Bocoup is helping Boston College modernize their IT systems in order to increase application build predictability, decrease overhead expenses, and reduce years of technical debt without sacrificing services for students and faculty.

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Centralizing Discovery of SMART & FHIR Medical Applications

SMART Health IT App Gallery | Boston Children's Hospital

Boston Children's Hospital wanted to make it easier for health and technology professionals to find and post listings for medical applications that use the SMART and FHIR standards. Bocoup worked with BCH to update and launch their SMART Health IT App Gallery.

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Recent from the Blog

Aug 10

The Next Steps For TC39

It’s been more than an year since I started attending TC39 meetings, and this most recent meeting felt much like the first, as I faced a new personal challenge: I went there as the acting chair. TC39 is a group of almost 50 highly skilled professionals, each with very strong positions on the existing form […]

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Aug 03

The Caper of the Flaky Test

The test showed up on my desk just like any other. There I was, working with Google’s Web Platform Predictability team to find so-called “flaky” tests in the venerable Web Platform Tests project. I’d run a hundred or so at a time, over and over again, looking for any that reported inconsistent results. It was […]

Jul 26

Accessibility for Robots

Maybe you’re not a “people person.” It’s not that you dislike other humans, but you recognize certain realities of your work. Your day job is maintaining a web application, after all, not carousing with your users. You know that accessibility is an important topic, but you haven’t been able to find the time to learn […]

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