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I’ve just posted up a new video showing how you can link automation tests in Test Studio to user story acceptance criteria in Team Pulse. It’s extraordinarily simple to do!

Find the video here on Telerik TV!

I’ve just posted up a new video showing how to hook Test Studio and Team Foundation Server together. The video walks through using Test Studio to open up projects from your TFS repository, then shows basic check-in/check-out features. I also walk through what merge conflicts look like in Test Studio and how to deal with them.

Then I flip to Visual Studio and show how you can link User Stories to Test Cases to Automated Tests—and show how you can write bugs against specific test cases.

Test Studio: Integrating With TFS

I hope you find this useful!

In case you didn’t know, each Thursday we have webinars for introducing people to Test Studio. They’re an hour long with ten or 15 minutes of slides, then 45-60 minutes of demos with Q&A interwoven in.

I recorded yesterday’s session and have posted it up to Telerik TV: Getting To Know Test Studio (1/5/2012). It’s just over an hour long and walks through the main features of Test Studio. I talk a lot about general automated software testing, discuss our performance testing features, and also show off our great manual testing capabilities.

I also spend some time talking about ...

The guys at .NET Rocks were kind enough to have me on their show to talk about testing. It’s always fun to chat with Carl and Richard and I think we had a pretty good discussion around a number of topics I’m particularly passionate about.

Check out DNR Show #729 if you’re interested. CancelI hope you find it useful!

I’ve just posted up a new video on Telerik TV, Common Functional Testing Problems, which will help you understand three common issues people run in to when working with automation for web applications:

• JavaScript interfering with text injection into input fields
• Dynamic data (such as AJAX or Silverlight service calls) where
  • Elements you need to interact with aren’t present on the page until after a service call completes
  • The elements you need to interact with are on the page, but the content in them isn’t present until after the service call completes

The video walks you through each of ...

Microsoft announced the release of Silverlight 5 a couple of days ago.

Telerik is the leader in supporting the new technologies so is our automated testing solution – Test Studio. The Silverlight Test Automation is straight forward with Test Studio no matter the SL version the application is built on top of or the Silverlight runtime on the client machine.

The latest official Telerik Test Studio version released a couple of weeks ago and labeled 2011.2.1117 officially supports Silverlight 5. Download the bits from here!

We also recommend the latest internal build, labeled 2011.2.1209 (yes, released the same ...

NOTE: I’m running a series called “31 Days of Testing” on my personal blog at FrazzledDad.com. The series covers a really broad range of testing topics, so I haven’t been cross-posting things here. This specific post; however, hits perfectly on things I’ve spoken about in Test Studio webinars and previous posts, so I’m posting it here, too. I’ll cross-post a few others; however, if you want to read the full series then please join me over at FrazzledDad!

I wanted to write a blog post on “Introduction to Functional Automation Testing” but I realized I firmly believe there are ...

I’ve just started my new series “That’s Neat” to Telerik TV. My goal with each video in the series is to show you one feature of Test Studio that I find helpful, interesting, or, well, neat. The videos will all be two to five minutes long, and I plan to record them while I’m on my various travels around to conferences, user groups, customers, or whatever.

The first video is on using the just-released feature for capturing elements with friendly names during recording.

I hope you enjoy the series!

Did you miss yesterday’s Q3 Webinar on Functional and Performance Testing with Telerik Test Studio?

No worries—you can now find it on Telerik TV!

I run through the features we’ve added to Test Studio in our Service Pack 1 release for Test Studio 2011 R2. Some of the things you’ll see in this video:

• Using the new Test Owner property to help identify who to talk with when a test fails
• Gathering profiling data from multiple servers
• Walking through the new, improved Compare view to see differences between two performance run passes
• Using our new feature that prompts you ...