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  • Release

    R2 Release Webinar is Live!

    The Test Studio 2011 R2 Release Webinar is now live on Telerik TV. This is a quick run through of the many great features in our R2 release. You’ll be seeing plenty more content around these features over the upcoming weeks! 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 @aJimHolmes on Twitter.
    October 02, 2011
  • Release

    Follow Up Information to R2 Release Webinar

    Thanks to the nearly 300 people who attended yesterday’s R2 Release webinar! I wanted to follow the webinar with this post pointing everyone to some of the resources I mentioned in the webinar. Slides: You can find the slides online now in our library Video Recording: The video recording of the webinar will be posted to Telerik TV shortly – it’s uploading in the background as I type this; however, it will take several days to get through the processing workflow. Demo App: The demo app is currently hosted on GitHub. You can poke around the repository and look ...
    September 30, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Good Collaboration: Bringing Devs and Testers Closer

    I fully admit it: I’m extraordinarily biased to having developers and testers co-located in the same room, or even at the same desk. I’ve seen the great collaboration that ensues as testers and devs bring their different skillsets, experience, and views together while working together on project tasks. While I’m biased in that direction, I’ve also led and been a part of teams working in different states and on different sides of the globe—and we were highly successful at our efforts thanks to working hard at establishing a great collaborative environment. Collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a central pillar ...
    September 27, 2011
  • Productivity Testing

    Wrapping Performance Testing Introduction: What to Monitor (Plus Learning Resources)

    In this final post of my performance testing series I’ll help you figure out where to start, then pass on a few resources I’ve found extremely helpful in my own efforts. What do I Monitor? Figuring out which metrics, measurements, and counters to monitor can be extremely daunting—there are hundreds of individual counters in Performance Monitor alone! In most cases you don’t need anywhere near the entire set of metrics. A few counters will give us all the information you generally need for starting your performance testing work. Most performance testing gurus will tell you just a few items will ...
    September 27, 2011
  • Productivity Testing

    Not Every Test Should be Automated!

    Updated: I realized that I didn’t make it clear I was writing this post from a vendor’s viewpoint! My choices of what to automate below are based on the view of a tester working on the team for this component—the creators of this control. You, as a consumer, should rarely, rarely ever automate third party controls or components. You may need some high-level test to ensure custom functionality works correctly, but your value is much better focused on testing your own software. Don’t invest in automating Google, Telerik, or other commercial products. -------- When you’re working with automation, choosing what ...
    September 22, 2011