Productivity: Testing

Acceptance Test Driven Development represents another step in the pragmatic, cooperative style that was described 10 years ago when a group of 17 software developers gathered at Utah’s Snowbird ski resort in February 2001 and issued the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, with its guiding principle of: “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.” The Agile Manifesto also includes the principle of: “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.” Perhaps the developers spent the evening hours around a big fireplace at Snowbird – feeding the flames with ...

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 ...

We are pleased to announce the official release of WebUI Test Studio Q3 SP2. The service pack release contains over 100 updates in areas including test execution, HTML automation, Silverlight automation, test scheduling, test explorer, storyboard view, elements explorer, DOM explorer and much more. Download SP2 Today! Creating a new test project in our Developer Edition is now easier than ever with our new WebUI Test Studio option added to the Visual Studio Telerik menu.   For those of you who have not seen our product roadmap for the forthcoming R1 2011 release - I encourage you to check it ...

It is hard to believe that January is already behind us as we dive deeper into 2011. For the testing tools we saw an amazing year of product growth and innovation and I would like to share with you some big announcements from the testing tools division for the upcoming year. The first big announcement is that we are going to have two major releases a year for Telerik automated testing tools in order to focus more on new product development and new feature development. The R1 release will be around the end of April and the R2 release will ...

We are pleased to announce that tests created with Telerik's Automated Testing Tools can now be integrated with NCover for code coverage of your .NET based web applications. Over the past month, our teams have been in touch and put together a solution described in vivid technical detail in our new Knowledge Base. I would also like to take this opportunity to invite you to a special live Webinar on February 18, 2011 at 11am EST. In this session, representatives from both Telerik and NCover will take you through the process from the creation of test automation in WebUI ...