Last week I wrote a quick summary of the Telerik Testing Summit.

I’m happy to announce we’ve got a short video posted up showing some of the highlights of the discussions during the first day of the conference.

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Are you completely new to functional web testing? Don’t know where to get started? If so, please mark off your calendar for a three day series of webinars June 26th, 27th, and 28th. I’ll be hosting these webinars from 11AM – 12PM Eastern US.

This series is targeted to individuals or teams just getting started with web automation—although more experienced folks may learn a few things too!

I’m still fleshing out the agenda and content, but here’s a few of the things you can look forward to learning about:

• Automation’s purpose/fit in your overall quality and testing strategy
• What a ...

Telerik’s TeamPulse is a terrific project management tool for boosting communication in and between projects. We’re constantly looking for ways to better integrate Test Studio with TeamPulse to clearly communicate quality metrics around your automated tests back to the projects.

We’ve had integration tying tests to acceptance criteria in TeamPulse for some time, but with Test Studio’s 2012 R1 release we’ve kicked up the integration another notch: You can now push bug reports from Test Studio directly to your TeamPulse projects from anywhere you can examine a failing test: the test explorer, test results calendar, or test list details.

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Join us Wednesday, 16 May, at 11am US Eastern time, to learn how Test Studio’s performance testing and just-released load testing features can help you detect bottlenecks in your system’s performance and answer business-critical questions about your site’s ability to handle large amounts of traffic.

This webinar will focus solely on Test Studio’s Performance and Load Testing features. We’ll be drilling down in to some great specifics of how these features can help you respond to questions from management like “Will our site be able to support traffic after this new product’s launch?” and “Are our customers happy when ...

Are you working with iOS applications? Do you need to get some automated tests around your native (UIKit), web, or hybrid applications?

Have a look at Test Studio for iOS! I’ve written about it beforehand, and tomorrow I’ll be hosting a webinar giving an introduction to our great testing tool for apps on iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.

I’ll show you how to set up your Xcode projects, and run through a few highlights of working with Test Studio for iOS. The webinar is at 11AM Eastern US.

Interested? Why not go register for the webinar?

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A good test case is neither too small nor too big. A good test case stands alone, sets up pre-test conditions, exercises the application under test (AUT), verifies one thing, reports the results of the verification, then if applicable, cleans up (usually data) and reports the overall test case result; pass or fail. 

If you were following Twitter last this last weekend (4 and 5 May) you may have seen a number of Tweets tagged with #TelSum. That was the Telerik Testing Summit, a peer conference held in Austin, Texas. Telerik welcomed a number of thought leaders in the testing and software industry to Austin, Texas, for two days of discussions on the state of software development. More importantly, we as a group were focused on what we could do to try and improve things.

Telerik was represented by myself and Phil Sams, plus Holly Bertoncini, our event organizer. Joining us ...

UPDATED: I goofed and listed Quality Center as an option for pushing bug reports to—but we only integrate bugs with TeamPulse and Team Foundation Server.

As much as I love them, automated tests (be they functional, integration, or unit) aren’t the end-all-be-all for your testing approach. Exploratory testing, particularly for any system of any consequence, is a critical part of your overall “Deliver Great Stuff!” strategy.

Getting your team freed up from repetitive regression testing empowers them to put their brains to use as they poke around the corners of your system. Exploratory testing gives you tremendous value as your ...

What does one second of performance degradation in web and e-commerce applications cost?

It depends, but according to the Aberdeen Group (June, 2008 Benchmark report), customers are won or lost in just one second, based solely on the performance of the web or e-commerce application. Just this single second of delay for an online retail site equates to a “seven percent reduction in customer conversion” and thus lost revenue, seven percent! 

Telerik Test Studio Performance test can help customers achieve a higher level of web or e-commerce performance, and mediate this risk.