I’ve posted up two short videos covering a typical AJAX testing scenario: the elements you need to interact with haven’t yet been created – they’re waiting on some other action on the page before they populate from a call back to the server.

AJAX: Working With Dynamically Loaded Elements is the first of the two and shows how to write a simple test to deal with this situation. AJAX: Data Driving Dynamically Loaded Elements is the second. This video expands on the first and shows you how to alter the first test to use data pulled in from an Excel ...

The rise and impact of automated testing tools and technology

The year was 1962 and the world was catching its first glimpse of the daring and colorful wonders that tomorrow might bring. It was a space-age vision of a technology-filled future – flying cars that could fold down into an attaché case, wisecracking robotic maids, and miraculous machines that could do anything from washing the dog to cooking a three-course gourmet meal, all at the touch of a button. It was a utopian society made cleaner, better, and more prosperous through the auspicious use of technology and automation.

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Test Studio offers you up several different validation types when you’re constructing a validation sentence targeting a content type. It’s important you understand the difference between the options you have – the subtle differences may cause unexpected failures or worse, falsely passing tests!

To demonstrate the differences, I’ll use the same example HTML I used in my previous post about working with test-hostile UIs.

If I select the first NewsItemContent node and look at its snippet of the DOM, we’ll see this:

<div  class="NewsItemContent">We continue to have more and more sucesses with dogfooding

 throughout Telerik. ("Dogfooding" ...

Telerik is competing for a number of awards in two different polls, and we’d love to have your support in both!

We’re in the running for 20 different categories for all Telerik tools in the DevProConnections awards, and we’re also up for a number of categories specific to Test Studio in the Automated Testing Institute’s annual Honors poll.

You can read more about the DevProConnections award on another Telerik blog post. I wrote about the ATI poll a few weeks ago.

I was very proud to join Telerik because I’ve been a long-time lover of their software, ...

[Note: I covered this topic somewhat in my earlier post on maintainable tests; however, this concept is so critical, in my opinion, that it deserves a separate post. You’ll continue to hear lots about this practice from me as I write and speak more!]

Test code should always be treated with the same care production code is – because test code IS production code! Your source code for your tests may not be deployed to your customers’ production servers, but it’s every bit as important as the components that are

Approach the design, implementation, and maintenance of your ...

Are you considering attending STARWEST, one of the premiere software testing conferences? We've got a discount code that can help you save a good amount of money off your tickets!

If you're interested please contact me via e-mail and I'd be happy to pass the code on -- no strings attached, and no, I won't add you to some mailing list! My e-mail is Jim.Holmes@Telerik.com.

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 ...

Looking for a summary of the new features from the R1 2011 SP2 release of Test Studio? The recording of the webinar from a couple weeks ago is now live on Telerik's site!

In this video you can see Dan Levy do a deep dive into several new features in the latest release. The coverage of the new Find Expression builder and his dive in to the Element Repository Explorer are interesting -- they dovetail in nicely with my discussion of keeping your tests maintainable.

About the author

Jim Holmes

Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is ...

We're proud to have Test Studio included in the Automated Testing Institute's annual Honors poll of top industry-wide tools and resources!

The poll breaks out different areas of tooling, presentations, blogs, and other resources, so it's a great poll to read simply to find other areas of testing to investigate.

Please take a moment and stop by the poll. Of course we'd appreciate your vote for Test Studio! (And if we don't get your vote, please let me know why. I'd love your feedback via the comments here or direct mail [Jim.Holmes@Telerik.com])

About the author

Jim Holmes

Jim Holmes has ...

Part of what I’ll be blogging about over the next few months is my journey to become an expert with Test Studio. I’m not an expert yet, but I do bring a long history of applying tooling and frameworks to solving real-world problems, and I’m going to be working through many of those same problems in short order—figuring out how to solve those same problems is an awesome way to learn a new tool or framework’s strengths and weaknesses. I hope that by sharing my discoveries I’ll help you work through some of the same common problems!

First up in ...