Or, in the vernacular, “Dude! Where are my .CHMs?”

In order to streamline the Test Studio installers, we’re no longer delivering the Telerik Testing Framework standalone help files bundled in with the download. Instead of a 100MB or larger download, we’re at 52MB – that’s a really nice improvement!

This only impacts teams that are working directly with the Testing Framework or are leveraging coded steps or tests within Test Studio Standalone or Express. In those cases you’ll still be able to find the complete API reference straight from the Online User Guide section of the Help tab:

Click there ...

Many tests need some form of setup action or data before you get rolling in to the test.In a good functional test you want that setup action abstracted away from the UI—having your browser run around creating setup data is slow and brittle!

For example, a test retrieving a user from a system shouldn’t first drive the system around to create that user. The action of creating the user for the real portion of the test should fall to some sort of a backing API. That API might call a web service, stored procedure, or even a command line utility. ...

Test Studio lets you bring your manual test cases in to our environment where you can run, track trends, and report on your manual tests. More importantly, you can use our Fast Forward feature to quickly step you through tedious setup and navigation actions.

I’ve just posted a video on Telerik TV showing off this feature. It’s a step-by-step walkthrough meant to get you up and rolling with effective, useful manual tests.

I also talk about something I feel very strongly about: Not test case should be automated. (I even wrote a blog post on this some time back, as ...

I’ve just updated our video on debugging tests in Visual Studio to show off the most current version of Test Studio. Have a look at this short video to get an overview of working with debugging in coded steps/tests. You’ll see the object explorer, Intellitrace, and a reminder about how cool the Immediate Window is when you’re exploring your code through the debugger!

I also posted a brand-new video showing how to work with Test Lists inside Visual Studio. This short video shows you how to set up test lists to deal with Test Studio tests. You’ll see a ...

Are you in the Boston area on 13 March? Come join me and some really smart Telerik colleagues for breakfast and learn a bit about Test Studio can help you quickly bring great quality to your projects. We’ll also have a session targeted to the question “HTML5 or Silverlight?” along with some demonstrations of how Telerik’s controls can help you in either case.

We’re shooting to have folks out by 10:30; however, we’ll have a few deep dive sessions afterwards if you’re able and interested in sticking around.

Find out more, and register, at our Eventbrite page: http://breakfastattelerikmarch.eventbrite.com. I ...

We’re excited to announce Service Pack 2 for Telerik Test Studio 2011 R2 is now live and ready for release! You can find it available for downloads at the regular download page, or through your account’s product page.

You can find a complete list of what’s new in this release on our version notes page.

Some of the big items in this release include:

• Support for Firefox 9+
• Support for Chrome 17+
• Support for recording file dialogs in IE9 (upload, save as, etc.)
• Neat enhancements to the Test as Step dialogs – better sorting, grouping, and metadata

There ...

Telerik’s Q1 webinars are coming up very soon! You can see webinars on all Telerik products and find out the latest and greatest about them.

I’ll be hosting the Test Studio webinar on 20 Feb from 11AM-12PM, Eastern US time. I’ll be walking through the changes from our November service pack release, and I’ll also show off some of the features Test Studio has to help you create more maintainable functional tests.

You can find registration details at the Telerik Webinars page.

I hope to see you there!

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