I am very pleased to announce the introduction of the new WebUI Test Studio Support Knowledgebase. Our support engineer's have been hard at work adding valuable content. Some of the new article topics include:

• Troubleshooting Misaligned Element Highlighting
• Creating a Scheduling Server
• Manually Activating your WebUI Test Studio License
• Repeating Actions for Multiple Users with Login (using the Test As Step feature)
• Many more to come!

We encourage you to bookmark this site and check back often - it will be a great resource for all things WebUI!

This week we published the latest official release of our automated testing tools – 2010 Q3 Service Pack. This release enhances product stability by introducing a lot of improvements and bug fixes in many areas. I’d like to focus this post on the latest optimizations and important bug fixes in the Test Scheduling feature.

I’ll start with the QA Edition changes.

Project Tab

Now you can find the following Scheduling commands in the Project Tab.

The project tab allows you to:

1. Connect the Project to the Scheduling Server.

In order to schedule a TestList for execution the project ...

Often times, you’ll need to store data from your application in XML files. Well, what if you want to report on this data… it’s not in a database, so how do you do it? I’m happy to say that you can easily report on XML data through the use of the ObjectDataSource component provided with Telerik Reporting. In this blog entry, we’ll take a look at how this can be accomplished.

Working with XML Data

For this example, I’ve generated some XML data in advance using this helpful data generation website.

We are pleased to announce the release of our QA Automation Software's official service pack release. This release contains enhancements and updates to our official Q3 release. Updated areas include Licensing, HTML Automation, Silverlight Automation, Command Line Execution, Execution Engine, Test Scheduling, Test Explorer, DOM Explorer, Data Binding, RadControl for ASP.NET AJAX & Silverlight Wrapper and much more, click here to see the detailed release notes.

Login to your Telerik account and navigate to the Automated Testing section to get your update today.

Invoking a mouse action can come in handy, especially in navigation menus that use hover-over fly-out sub-menus.

To get started, select the hover-over highlighting tool from the recording toolbar which is docked to Internet Explorer.

Next, select the element on which you would like to invoke the hover over mouse action on, stay hovered, then click the blue bubble.

The WebUI Element Menu is now displayed, note the icons highlighted below, these are used to invoke 'Javascript Events' and 'Mouse Actions', select 'Mouse Actions'

Next, select the 'Mouse Hover' option by double clicking it.

A desktop command will be added ...

As you know, with the official Q3 2010 release of WebUI Test Studio, you can easily create a scheduling server for test execution.

What you may not know is that you also have the ability to publish test list results from a command line execution directly to your scheduling server - here's what you need to do:

• The first step is to configure a scheduling server if you have not yet done so.
• Next, be sure to connect your project to your scheduling server (QA Edition Only)
• Now just set the appropriate arguments on the AoT Runner
  • Set the ...

Thanks to all those to attended Wednesday's Automated Testing in the Agile Environment webinar. If you missed the presentation you can catch it 24/7 on Telerik TV.

Since we had some great questions asked during the session, I thought I would share them with the community!

Q: Can't automated test execution take a long time as well? Is that just a time/project management issue?
A: Sure depending on the number of tests and the complexity of the tests, they can take time as well - of course tests can be run during off hours and dispersed across multiple test ...