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 ...

In my last post I talked about some ways to organize your tests to help keep things clear and discoverable. My pal Adam Goucher, one of the top Selenium folks around, took me to task me via mail (in a friendly way!) that tags and metadata are a critical part of organizing your tests.

I agree, but with a subtle difference. Tags and other forms of metadata are great for helping you categorize your tests, but I think they come in to play more when you’re trying to execute your tests versus organize your tests on the file system. ...

Naming and organization is critical in keeping software systems maintainable as you move forward, especially with larger systems or systems with longer lifespans. You’ll find yourself spending large amounts of time stumbling around unclear, tangled source code if you don’t take care with how you lay out your classes, namespaces, and projects.

We should take the same exact care with our tests as the systems we’re delivering to our customers, because test code IS production code.

Careful naming and layout of your tests is every bit as important as the system itself—and perhaps even a bit more since we ...

Join us for the Q3 webinar on Test Studio on Tuesday, Nov 29th at 2pm Eastern. You can register at our GoToMeeting site.

The webinar is titled “Functional and Performance Testing with Test Studio” however, I’ll also be covering the great enhancements to Test Studio just released as part of our Service Pack 1 update.

Come join us!

About the author

Jim Holmes

Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools" and Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. He's a blogger and evangelist for Telerik’s Test Studio, an awesome set ...

Telerik has won multiple honors for this year’s Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards!

Test Studio won top honors in the Software Testing and Quality Assurance category, and I’m proud to say that a number of other great Telerik products got top nod as well, including:

• Best Collaboration, Project Management, and Agile Solutions – Telerik TeamPulse
• Best Component Suite: Web – RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
• Best Mobile Development Tools – RadControls for Windows Phone

JustCode, OpenAccess, SiteFinity, and Telerik Reporting all got Merit awards, as did a number of our other controls.

Thanks very much to our loyal customers ...