Every year TechEd’s Speaker Idol gives entrants a chance to win a highly coveted speaking slot at Microsoft's TechEd conference. Contestants have to create a five minute presentation which they deliver on stage in front of four judges and large crowds in the main expo hall. The judges provide feedback and determine a winner and runner up in each of three heats. The winners and top runner up all advance to the finals. The winner of the contest gets a speaking slot at the following year's conference.

Our Test Studio Evangelist Jim Holmes spoke on something near and dear to ...

Have you had problems building the software your customer expects, with a level of quality you’re all proud of?

Join me, Phil Japikse, and Chris Eargle on 19 July at 12:00pm EDT for a three hour webinar to help you learn how to avoid wasting time writing things that aren’t needed or wanted, to shorten the feedback loop, improve your project and increase your transparency.

You’ll see how to use TeamPulse to start capturing customer ideas and bring them in to your project as great, clear requirements (or stories!). You’ll discover how Test Driven Development, especially with Telerik’s great toolset, ...

There were a lot of questions from users what would be the price of Test Studio for iOS when it drops the Beta tag. Well, get excited: it will be distributed for FREE! Better yet, our product team worked really hard to simplify the download/deployment process for you so that you can start testing your mobile apps right away – Test Studio for iOS is now available for download from the Apple’s App Store directly to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch device.

For those of you who are not familiar with Telerik’s mobile testing solution for iOS apps, here’s ...

WWDC is huge this year! People are not sleeping and are overly excited! The @teleriktesting crew is also there! And we have a special treat for you! The new MacBook Pro!

Find one of these handsome looking fellows (see picture below). Snatch a cool “Tested for awesomeness” t-shirt. Wear it! Snap a photo and post it on Twitter with the #wwdc & #telerik hashtags! And you’re in!

N.B. The Test Studio for iOS is totally FREE and available for download from the Apple App Store. Just in time for WWDC! Want to test your web apps? Go give it ...

Telerik will have a great presence at TechEd in Orlando next week. We’ll have folks from many of Telerik’s great teams there to chat with you on things ranging from TeamPulse and project management to HTML5 with Kendo UI to, well, testing!

Please stop by our booth in the main expo hall (#1841) and say hello!

On a side note, I’m going to be in Orlando from Sunday through Thursday. I’d be happy to sit down with you and chat about any testing challenges you’re having, regardless of the toolset you’re working with. Look me up at the booth, or ...

We’re happy to announce that Service Pack 1 for our R1 release of Test Studio 2012 is now live and ready for download. The team did a great amount of work for this release, nearly all of it behind the scenes. (You can read through the release notes here.)

Some of the big wins for this release (from my view!) include:

• Stabilized handling of file download dialogs during recording and playback
• Fixed a number of other dialog handling issues (the frequent updates to browsers are as challenging for us as for folks developing web applications!)
• Added a number of ...

Stop me if you’ve seen or experienced this before: a chaotic project environment is leaving your team missing critical ideas from customers or stakeholders. You’re unable to get good discussions around what you want to build, how you want to build it, and how you’re planning on testing it. You can’t keep an eye on the status of your automated tests – oh, wait. You don’t have time to write them, much less track their status, and how those tests tie to the particular features you’re building and maintaining.

Let’s not even bring up bug tracking, shall we?

I’ve been ...