Productivity: Testing

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What was wrong with the old Firefox versioning? Do they need just to follow someone else? Anyway, no matter what Mozilla (or anyone else) does, we at Telerik should be ready to meet the news. The latest internal build of our Automated Testing Tools solves the compatibility issues with Firefox 5 so tests are now played back there just fine. We will support Firefox 5 officially with the 2011 R1 Service Pack 2 due in a couple of weeks. Enjoy! -Konstantin

If you enjoy writing documentation from scratch, this article may not be for you. If you like removing as much repetitive work as possible, then JustCode can help you out. Aside from aiding in this endeavor with code, it also addresses code documentation. There are two primary features in JustCode I will discuss. The first is Generate Documentation which handles the XML comments for methods and types. The second is a new feature, Introduce Header, which was made available on May 3rd with internal build 1. Generate Documentation I like self-documenting code. I write short, descriptive methods intended for anyone to be...