Telerik blogs
  • People

    StarEast 2012 Wrap Up

    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 ...
    April 20, 2012
  • Productivity Testing

    Test Studio 2012 R1 is Here (Soon!)

    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 ...
    April 09, 2012
  • Productivity Testing

    Avoiding Brittle Automation

    This morning I gave a “Speed Geeking Breakfast Talk” at the Software Testing Professionals Conference in New Orleans. Speed Geeking talks at STPCon are eight minute lightning format talks. There’s not really any time for Q&A during the talks, but they’re great for laying out important points and starting a conversation after the talk. My talk was whimsically titled “Brittle Automation or a Sharp Stick in the Eye? Wait, Let Me Think.” My point with the title is that badly done test automation can become such a time-consuming, frustrating task that the pain of it is metaphorically worse than  a ...
    March 28, 2012
  • People

    Interview with Jim on STP Radio Live

    Tuesday, March 19th, I had the pleasure of appearing on STP Radio Live hosted by Rich Hand. This live blogtalk radio show centers around talking with people who are presenting sessions at upcoming Software Test Professionals conferences. (By the way, that’s a picture of Rich, not me!) Rich invited me to talk about test automation in general, plus we covered what my “Automation Isn’t All Shiny Toys” presentation’s about. We also chatted on the main points of my article at STPCon "3 Common Pitfalls when Functional Testing a Web Application.” Our chat on the show covered ...
    March 21, 2012
  • Productivity Testing

    4.5 Tips for Working With Tests in Tables

    Many applications render data in tables; writing tests for table-based data is a very common task. Unless you approach it with a bit of preparation, it’s also a task that can easily result in you building very brittle tests. Consider the following grid which displays a list of contacts after having taken actions elsewhere in the system. (I’m using a Telerik RadGrid for AJAX in this example, by the way.) Perhaps one of our tests is to verify Jayne Cobb appears in the table. I can easily do that in two steps via a recorded step. Easy! The problem is ...
    March 05, 2012