One of the key factors to the increased popularity of jQuery is its powerful selector syntax that can be used to find elements in the DOM. The syntax enables simple selections like selecting an element using an ID (#my_id) to more complex mutli-element selections and filtering.

The power and popularity of jQuery selectors prompted many of our customers to request support for similar selection/query syntax in our WebAii Testing Framework. It is worth noting here that WebUI Test Studio is built on top off the WebAii Framework and customers using WebUI Test Studio have full access to the framework API ...

The Test List is a great way to organize tests and get execution results summarized at the Test List level. WebUI Test Studio includes the standard “Static” Test List that allows you to add existing tests from your project, but there is a small maintenance penalty for using the static list because each time you add a new test to your project it must be added to one of the existing test lists.

One of the underlying principals of WebUI Test Studio is to decrease the overall maintenance cost traditionally associated with automated testing.  Within the world of test lists ...

So, the first day of CodeStock 2010 is finally coming to a close. It has certainly been an eventful day filled with great sessions, and an exciting Keynote.

I started out my day by attending Effective User Interface Design by John Kellar. In this session, I learned about the different things you should take into account when interacting with your customers, designing the applications they want to use. Following this, I spent some time learning about ASP.NET MVC in Dave Giard's session, Building Your First ASP.Net MVC Application. This session was prior to my own session (my very first session ever), Creating an Extensible Photo Application with MEF, so ...

Automated testing can be broken into two parts from a process perspective.  First, there is the creation of the test in which you record all of your actions and verifications for a particular scenario.  Second, you execute your test on a frequent basis in order to find regressions in your application.  In this blog I will demonstrate a simple option for scheduling your tests for execution using a built in feature of Windows.

For WebUI Test Studio users that do not want to use Team Foundation Server to schedule test list executions there is a great alternative already built into ...

The default behavior of the WebAii Testing Framework (and WebUI Test Studio respectively) searching for the application visual elements is to timeout after a certain period of time if the element is not found.

        [TestMethod()]
         public  void TelerikComSLTest1()
        {
             // Enable Silverlight testing
            Manager.Settings.EnableSilverlight =  true;

             // Launch an instance of the browser
            Manager.LaunchNewBrowser();

             // Navigate to : 'http://www.telerik.com/'
            ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("http://www.telerik.com/");

            SilverlightApp app =  this.ActiveBrowser.SilverlightApps()[0];

            Image titleImage = app.Find.ByName<Image>("Title");  // will timeout if the image name is changed  // Wait for visible 'TitleImage'
            titleImage.Wait.ForVisible();

             // do whatever else is needed
        ...

As I had mentioned in a previous blog post, I will be presenting two sessions at CodeStock. One on MEF, and one on iPhone and Windows Phone 7 development. You can read more about these in this post. If you are interested in downloading the materials associated with these sessions, you have come to the right place! The download links are below...

Creating an Extensible Photo Application with MEF (View)
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iPhone or Windows Phone 7: How Do You Choose (View)
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Download WinPhone7 Demos
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Earlier today, I presented a webinar about Connecting to Data and Using Expression in Telerik Reporting. Thanks to everyone who attended and I hope you all learned something new. If you were unable to attend, the webinar has been recorded and is now available on Telerik TV. I've posted the link below.

An Overview of Connecting to Data and Using Expression in Telerik Reporting

The latest release of Telerik Reporting features two completely new data source components, the SqlDataSource component and the ObjectDataSource component. These components make it easy to bind to Business Objects or ADO.NET supported databases. Once a ...