[NOTE: This is a guest post from Telerik’s own Phil Japikse, one of Telerik’s Senior Developer Evangelists."]

Background

User Interface testing isn’t just for quality engineers.  It’s vital for developers to own part of this process as well.  The days of development silos are long gone (or at least should be!)  The process of throwing bits “down the line” is fraught with inefficiencies. 

Developers are already adopting unit testing in record numbers, and this has led to a phenomenal increase in code quality. Why should it stop there?  Developers need to also take ownership of the user interface code just ...

Greetings, fellow testers. I recently attended a workshop on Acceptance Test Driven Development, during which the presenter spoke about distilling requirements down using examples. This is a great opportunity for testers and developers to work closely with Product Owners to determine exactly what output is expected from given inputs.

There are also times when the code behind a function is particularly obtuse or for some other reason testing is best done via the application itself.

Both of these are great opportunities for data-driven automation. Data-driven test automation lets us repeat a set of test steps automatically, using a set of ...

We recently released Test Studio for iOS Version 2.0, and with it a new companion Web Portal. We issued a three month extended trial for the Web Portal as a thank you to our early adopters.

Subscription Options

That extended trial came to an end this week. To continue using the Web Portal, head over to our pricing page for all the subscription details. The premium features can be purchased together or independently, and in custom quantities. We went with the a la carte model to give you more flexibility. You can add exactly what and how much ...

Good web automation isn’t about best practices (there aren’t any!), but instead using much more of a cookbook approach: Have a problem? Find a recipe that helps you cook up a solution. The recipe you might need may not be a huge flambé, but the idea’s still a good one.

To help you with this we’ve decided to start a monthly webinar series showing you how to work through specific issues in web automation: Cooking With Web Automation. Your friendly Test Studio team will be co-hosting these webinars with various automation, testing, and/or developer gurus.

We’ll focus these short 30 ...

You may have caught some of the earlier “That’s Neat!” episodes I’ve posted over the last year or so. I’ve just posted a number of new ones, and have gathered all of them into one series suitably titled, wait for it… “That’s Neat.”

I hope you enjoy these! They’re always fun to make. We’ll be adding more in the future.

Do you have some favorite feature of Test Studio you’d like to see in a “That’s Neat!” episode?

About the author

Jim Holmes

Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He's a blogger and is the Director ...

OK, so it turns out I got badly distracted after my Guide to Success Part I and never actually finished Part II. Whoops. Consider this egregious error rectified now!

In this episode you’ll learn more about the Element Repository, Reporting, Performance Testing, Manual Tests, and some next steps you can take on your own.

I hope you find the video helpful!

About the author

Jim Holmes

Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He's a blogger and is the Director of Engineering for Telerik’s Test Studio, an awesome set of tools to help teams deliver better software. He is ...

I gave a talk on Four Tips for Web Automation at StarEast 2013 this April. I’ve posted up my slides on SpeakerDeck

You can also find the demo code at my GitHub repository.

Were you at the talk? Did you find it useful?

About the author

Jim Holmes

Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He's a blogger and is the Director of Engineering for Telerik’s Test Studio, an awesome set of tools to help teams deliver better software. He is co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools" and Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. Find him as ...

Greetings, fellow testers. Last week, we hosted a number of thought leaders in the testing community as part of the 2nd annual Telerik Testing Summit (Twitter: #TelSum) in Austin, Texas. The event is a free-form peer conference on software development — of which testing is an important part — its current state and possible avenues of improvement. The agenda was developed on the spot and adjusted throughout the weekend, with an emphasis on flexibility. A few tools and technologies were mentioned, but this was very much a broad discussion of people and how they relate to each other, of ideas ...

Greetings, fellow testers. I'm excited to be joining the Telerik family, and I'll be sharing tips and tricks, ideas and suggestions with you here. I plan on providing a good bit of intro information for our new users as well as more in-depth articles for those of you who have already invested a good bit of time in Test Studio.

UI Automation is what brings most of us to Test Studio in the first place, but I want to start here by pointing out a component that's easily overlooked - Test Studio's support of manual testing. As Jim often says, ...

As promised in the preview post, some great new features are available today in version 2.0.1:

• Jenkins CI support
• Expanded TSReport support: Xamarin.iOS and Cordova
• Bug fixes

To get started, update Test Studio for iOS from the App Store, download the latest file bundle from Telerik.com, and update the testing extensions in your native app.

Stay Tuned

We're improving the Feedback image editing experience for version 2.1. Stay tuned here for previews and a release date.

About the Author

Anthony Rinaldi

Anthony Rinaldi is the Product Manager of Telerik's Test Studio for iOS. He combines his experience ...