When recording automation, it's important to stay laser focused on your main objective - creating a sustainable test that can be executed consistently for regression testing. By staying in this mind set and taking time to think through each test case and how to best tackle it - you will have created tests that will thoroughly test your application build after build. A common pitfall new testers fall into is creating automation that is action oriented without setting appropriate 'verification' and 'wait' steps. 'Verification' and 'wait ' steps allow you to ensure elements exist prior to performing click actions and ...

After having installed TeamPulse the first thing a user is going to have to do is create a new project.  Creating a new project presents the important decision of choosing a template for the project.  Once a project is created you cannot change the template later so the decision is one not to be taken lightly.  After reading this blog post you will understand what is a project template in TeamPulse as well as understand each of the different project templates available in order to be capable of choosing the correct template for your project. What is ...

It has been a while since I've had a nice, lengthy, code-a-riffic post on here so I wanted to start this off right.  By the title of this post I've already given up part of the surprise- I'm revisiting the Silverlight Recruiting Application and bringing it up to date.  For those of you that don't remember (or haven't seen this series), the concept behind this application was around a real world internal use here at Telerik.  More specifically, we keep growing and therefore our HR demands have grown, requiring something more robust than a very organized use of Excel and...

We've just released JustMock Q2 2010 Service Pack 1 so feel free to log in to your telerik client accounts and download the latest bits. You can read more information about what we've managed to fix and what we've added here. Have a great and productive day!...

The first blog post on this topic described how to create a domain model from an existing database and set inheritance relations between the generated classes. It was also shown how to use vertical mapping. In this post however, the focus is on the flat strategy (multiple classes mapped to one table) and forward mapping. Let's add some new classes to the model from the previous post: The new classes - Coupe and Limousine, will be mapped to the table of the Car class. To do that, select each of the new classes and change the "Mapped to" option in the Details Editor...