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  • Productivity Testing

    Test Studio And HTML Frames

    Frames are not well liked it seems. Digging around the web I find that lot of people consider using frames very poor practice. Now I'm not a web developer so I really wouldn't know about that. But what I can tell you is that automating frames can be tricky. There's some things you'll need to know if you want to save yourself a lot of frustration. And here we go (all this stuff is in the context of Test Studio):  You need to find Frames before you can use them Frames contains objects. If you want to automate ...
    October 25, 2012
  • People

    Join us for the Q3 Webinar on Friday, 10/26!

    Telerik’s Q3 Webinar Week is coming up next week, and Test Studio will be closing out the week with a webinar on “Taking Your Functional Tests to the Next Level.” The webinar is on Friday, 26 Oct., at 11am US Eastern time. In that webinar I’ll be showing you how to work with more complex locators—and where Xpath makes good sense! I’ll also be showing you some of the tricks I’ve blogged about here for making flexible queries in to tables to get data independent of where that data hits. You’ll find out how to create find logic that works ...
    October 09, 2012
  • Productivity Testing

    Editing a Verification for an IF Conditional

    Test Studio’s IF Conditional steps are extraordinarily handy feature which enable you to handle branching in your tests based on specific conditions. There are a number of scenarios where this can ensure your tests are a bit more robust—logging in to your system if needed is one example. (Note: There are also many situations where I recommend against using conditionals. Don’t use them to conflate separate test cases. Keep your test cases simple, specific, and granular!) Here’s a tip I just learned today: Editing an IF conditional’s verification. This is nice feature because it allows you to update your conditional ...
    October 02, 2012
  • Productivity

    Using Data Driven Find Logic

    Our R2 release of Test Studio 2012 enables you to create data-driven find expressions! This is an uber-geeky feature which can help you build out very flexible, powerful tests. There are a number of scenarios where you may find this useful; this post will show you one scenario for quickly validating the contents of the top menu in our Telerik demo application. In the image below you can see we’ve got three items, each identified by an ID, and each with some text content. To build a data-driven locator, fire up the recorder, pick an element from the menu (#1 ...
    September 28, 2012
  • People

    R2 Release Webinar is Live on TTV!

    If you missed the Release Webinar for Test Studio’s 2012 R2 release, never fear! You can find a video of it now on Telerik TV. I hope you find the video a useful overview of a few of the great features we’ve included in this release. Enjoy! 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 of tools to help teams deliver better software. Find him as ...
    September 28, 2012