As a QA professional, it’s important to get involved with the development team early on in the process. This article will discuss just one of the many benefits in doing so – coding standards and the use of ID’s for enhanced team productivity. Require this up front and you can significantly cut back test case maintenance. No matter what software you use for your test automation, the method in which elements are identified plays a critical role. Small changes to your application can often break the test’s ‘find logic’ causing your test runs to fail. Let’s say a couple elements ...

“Our team is agile because we stand up for meetings!” It’s the perennial joke of the agile community. We’ve all heard of teams that feel that they are doing agile development because they stand up for their meetings. (I sincerely hope that it is more urban legend than truth.) The reality is that there is more to agile than stand up meetings and there is more to stand up meetings than simply standing. Let’s look at some of the key aspects of the stand up meeting and how you can make yours more effective. Just the Facts, Ma’am At the ...

Following the Telerik MVC Q1 2011 BETA release announced yesterday, we are sharing another exhilarating news: the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2011 BETA release is here! This is an early preview of the next major release of our AJAX suite which is focused on major supplements to the SharePoint 2010 Telerik AJAX webparts armory, new controls (RibbonBar and MonthYearPicker) and important updates across the whole Telerik AJAX portfolio. Check our ONLINE DEMOS and RELEASE NOTES The downloads are now available in your account (or free trials): both full installation (MSI) or manual installation (ZIP)   Details on the Q1 2011 BETA (also present on Telerik Labs) Common With...

Q1 2011 marks the official release of RadControls for Windows Phone with several exciting new features, such as RadGauge design-time support – you will be able to choose from a predefined Gauges gallery with a single click. Another highlight of the release will be the RadDataBoundListBox control, which is a light-weight version of the standard ListBox component and what’s more – the fastest ListBox component available. Thanks to its unmatched performance, your end-users can navigate through thousands of items without ever slowing down the application. The JumpList control is using Telerik’s unique DataLayer building upon LINQ to make filtering, sorting and grouping possible with setting a single property....

The Q1 2011 version of the Chart control will include code to support empty/null values. There are many scenarios, in which the property of an object, or a collection of objects, to which the Chart is data bound, is null. The following code example demonstrates one such case: The null values above are hard-coded, however they convey the general idea of null values being returned by the data layer, to which the Chart is data bound. Internally, there are three ways in which these null values can be handled. This is specified by a property in the control, for the series...