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  • People

    Vote for us in Code Project Reader Choice Awards 2012

    Telerik Test Studio has been nominated in the Debugging & QA category in this year’s Code Project Readers’ Choice Awards. If you enjoy using Test Studio; appreciate your experience with our customer & technical support, please, do cast your vote for us! Telerik has been nominated in 14 categories. If some of your favorite products are in that list you can vote for them until Friday, May 11. Thank you for your support!
    May 08, 2012
  • Productivity Testing

    Telerik Testing Summit Wrap-up

    If you were following Twitter last this last weekend (4 and 5 May) you may have seen a number of Tweets tagged with #TelSum. That was the Telerik Testing Summit, a peer conference held in Austin, Texas. Telerik welcomed a number of thought leaders in the testing and software industry to Austin, Texas, for two days of discussions on the state of software development. More importantly, we as a group were focused on what we could do to try and improve things. Telerik was represented by myself and Phil Sams, plus Holly Bertoncini, our event organizer. Joining us ...
    May 07, 2012
  • Productivity Testing

    What does a good test case look like?

    A good test case is neither too small nor too big. A good test case stands alone, sets up pre-test conditions, exercises the application under test (AUT), verifies one thing, reports the results of the verification, then if applicable, cleans up (usually data) and reports the overall test case result; pass or fail. 
    May 07, 2012
  • Release

    Check out the new Exploratory Tool!

    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 ...
    April 27, 2012
  • Productivity

    One Second ~ 7% Customer Conversion Loss

    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. 
    April 22, 2012