UPDATED: I goofed and listed Quality Center as an option for pushing bug reports to—but we only integrate bugs with TeamPulse and Team Foundation Server.

As much as I love them, automated tests (be they functional, integration, or unit) aren’t the end-all-be-all for your testing approach. Exploratory testing, particularly for any system of any consequence, is a critical part of your overall “Deliver Great Stuff!” strategy.

Getting your team freed up from repetitive regression testing empowers them to put their brains to use as they poke around the corners of your system. Exploratory testing gives you tremendous value as your ...

What does one second of performance degradation in web and e-commerce applications cost?

It depends, but according to the Aberdeen Group (June, 2008 Benchmark report), customers are won or lost in just one second, based solely on the performance of the web or e-commerce application. Just this single second of delay for an online retail site equates to a “seven percent reduction in customer conversion” and thus lost revenue, seven percent! 

Telerik Test Studio Performance test can help customers achieve a higher level of web or e-commerce performance, and mediate this risk. 

I and four other Telerikers (Holly, May, Dan, and Jasper) just returned back to our respective homes after a few days at StarEast. Our booth at StarEast was busy the entire time!

We all had an extremely productive trip in a great many ways. Holly’s our organizer extraordinaire, May (our UX dev) got a lot of insight to how our users see the product, Jasper had many conversations with users about our feature set and potential new features, and Dan spent a lot of time talking with folks to introduce them to the awesomeness that is ...

It’s that time of the year: the latest, greatest release of Telerik’s Test Studio is due out Wednesday, 11 April!

We’ve got a number of great features lined up for this release: integrated bug tracking, exploratory testing tooling, better support for HTML controls, and of course, the big feature: load testing!

Grab the release bits tomorrow, but be sure to stop by the Release webinar on Wednesday, 25 April at 11AM Eastern US. You’ll need to register first, but there are plenty of spaces!

Load testing can be a complex, intimidating subject. If you’d like some more information, I ...

Interested in learning more about how Test Studio for iOS can help you create great automated tests for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch applications?

Have a look at the just-uploaded webinar video!

I’ll walk you through getting Test Studio for iOS installed and configured in your Xcode workspace projects, then I’ll show you how easy it is to get started recording and playing back tests. You’ll also learn about error reporting and troubleshooting failed tests, plus you’ll find out how we work hard to make your tests extremely flexible with element location.

You’ll also discover how to deal ...