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GOV.UK, the UK’s single website for government information and services, is built in the open by a team within the Government Digital Service (GDS). The GOV.UK team is made up of several product, content and support teams that all work together to provide...

Anonymous feedback from GOV.UK’s users has proven immensely useful since the site launched in 2012. This post describes how this feedback is captured and what makes it useful.
Problem reports
Most pages on GOV.UK prompt users to leave anonymous feedback, through the “Is there anything wrong with this page?” form (like the form at the bottom of the VAT rates page). The form captures what the user was doing, and what went wrong for them. This...

GOV.UK was brought up in Parliament yesterday. Some praise, and I liked the challenge laid down to improve the usability.
Lord Leigh of Hurley:
In fact, last week I attempted to put myself in the shoes of such an SME businessman and visited the government website to seek help. As your Lordships may know, the new entry portal for all government help is www.gov.uk and on the very front page there...

This question has been discussed on the DbFit forums a few times (and very similar discussions have taken place over at the FitNesse forums); here is my 2c on the subject.
Unit tests and executable specifications
DbFit was originally designed as a unit-level testing framework for database code. I (and many others) have also used DbFit (and FitNesse) for writing executable specifications - I believe that the tool is a really good fit for those types of tests....