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  • Productivity Testing

    Automating Innovation

    The rise and impact of automated testing tools and technology The year was 1962 and the world was catching its first glimpse of the daring and colorful wonders that tomorrow might bring. It was a space-age vision of a technology-filled future – flying cars that could fold down into an attaché case, wisecracking robotic maids, and miraculous machines that could do anything from washing the dog to cooking a three-course gourmet meal, all at the touch of a button. It was a utopian society made cleaner, better, and more prosperous through the auspicious use of technology and automation. This description, ...
    August 23, 2011 10 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Keep Your Tests DRY

    [Note: I covered this topic somewhat in my earlier post on maintainable tests; however, this concept is so critical, in my opinion, that it deserves a separate post. You’ll continue to hear lots about this practice from me as I write and speak more!] Test code should always be treated with the same care production code is – because test code IS production code! Your source code for your tests may not be deployed to your customers’ production servers, but it’s every bit as important as the components that are Approach the design, implementation, and maintenance of your ...
    August 10, 2011 4 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Working with Test-Hostile Web UIs

    Part of what I’ll be blogging about over the next few months is my journey to become an expert with Test Studio. I’m not an expert yet, but I do bring a long history of applying tooling and frameworks to solving real-world problems, and I’m going to be working through many of those same problems in short order—figuring out how to solve those same problems is an awesome way to learn a new tool or framework’s strengths and weaknesses. I hope that by sharing my discoveries I’ll help you work through some of the same common problems! First up in ...
    August 02, 2011 9 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Follow up to Maintainable Automation

    During my first-ever webinar with Telerik this week I spoke briefly about learning how to keep your tests maintainable. This is something near and dear to my heart – I’ve been on a number of projects where we’ve had to suffer through test suites which became ever more brittle as time went on. Brittle tests break frequently due to unrelated changes in the system’s workflow, UI, or business rules. Of course, tests should fail when something directly relating to the test is broken—that’s why we have the tests!—but one change to a web page unrelated to the specific area you’re ...
    July 22, 2011 5 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Test Studio R1 2011 SP2 is here!

    We are pleased to announce that Test Studio's R1 2011 SP2 (version 2011.1.712) release is now available to download! This service pack features over 70 updates in almost every area of the application. Updated areas include: HTML automation, XAML (Silverlight & WPF) automation, Browser Plug-Ins, Dialog Handling, Test Explorer, DOM Explorer, Team Pulse Integration, TFS (Team Foundation Server) Integration, Results Viewing, Reporting, and more! We have added some major (and I mean major) updates to our Find Expression Builder - its been completely reinvented combining the ease of use you have come to expect from Test Studio, with the ...
    July 13, 2011 2 min read