The Test Studio team is sponsoring EuroSTAR 2011 in Manchester, England from 21-24 November. Part of the run up to EuroSTAR includes a series of audiocasts from various people in the testing industry. I’ve got one episode in that series: “Devs + Testers == Awesome” [1] I talk for about ten minutes on something I’m particularly passionate about: tight collaboration between testers and developers. I’ve long believed (through practical hard knocks!) that closer collaboration gets our customers better software. You’ll have to register on the site to listen to the audiocast (sorry!), but I think it’s worth it!...

Sounds simple. Why is it so hard then? First, what do I mean when I say “Know Thy Customer?”  Ultimately I mean that the best teams have customer value at the heart of their software development processes – they truly “Know Thy Customer”.   I’m not saying anything new – however, I do want to talk about how to take this beyond simply “proclaiming” you know your customer or that you have a prioritized backlog down to some ways you can execute and engage. I’ve made many mistakes in my almost 20 years of developing software.  Lots and lots of technical ...

The final major release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX for this year brings new controls, embedded Metro skin and a plethora of new features for the existing controls to the table. The Q3 2011 Beta preview which has just been uploaded on the site (both for TRIAL and COMMERCIAL users) grants a direct access to the pre-release bits to play with them at your disposal. Read on to learn more about the Beta: Org Chart | Social Share | Metro Skin | Items drag and drop on mobile The Premium Telerik AJAX component set grows with a couple more controls - Org Chart and...

In the last versions of Telerik JustCode we added some nice features that will help you quickly refactor your code, so let’s start right away. Convert If To Switch Statement JustCode now detects the if-statements that can be converted to a switch statement and suggests doing it for you. Place your cursor on the if-statement and hit Alt+Enter or choose the F menu from VisualAid, select ‘Convert if to switch statement’.   Convert If To Conditional Expression Another if conversion that we added is to convert an if-statement to a conditional expression (or ternary operator as some people call it). Place your cursor on the if-statement and hit...

The Q3 2011 BETA release of RadControls for Windows Phone is on its way (expected within several days) and I cannot wait to share what’s new in our charting component. Along with several important bug fixes reported by our users, two brand new series that bring the financial charting to your applications are included. Candlestick series According to Wikipedia, these series are used primarily to describe price movements of derivatives or currency over time. Supporting true UI virtualization, the series are capable of displaying thousands of data points. Using the Pan-And-Zoom behavior you can move through the timeline to a certain time slot...