Productivity: Testing

The new major version of Telerik automated testing tools is now available for download from the client accounts. The Q2 2010 release improves the Silverlight automation support adding features like: · Silverlight Out-of-Browser automation · ChildWindow and popup automation solution · Virtualized controls handling · Enhancements in the Silverlight controls wrappers and translators and many more! With this release we also introduce numerous valuable features like: · Image verification with options to refine the comparison area and add tolerance · Exporting the test storyboard in order to generate documentation from the automated tests · Connect to an existing browser instance...

In Q2, we enabled a great feature in WebUI Test Studio that many customers have been asking for: The ability to export an automated test case including storyboard images into a document format that can be published/printed or sent to others. Before going into how to generate such documentation in WebUI Test Studio, I would like to take a moment and talk a little about some of the usage scenarios for this feature. Document your test scenarios in a format that can be easily shared with your teammates to help review and communicate test coverage. Document your application business requirements. ...

In Part 1 we looked at how we can use WebUI Test Studio’s Execution engine to execute tests either using an individual test or a group of test within a test list.  In Part 2, we are going to look at how we can take the results of our execution and publish them to a non-default location. Let’s take a look at the first two options for results publishing, out=[folder path] and root=[folder path]. The out=[folder path] option allows us to copy our results file to any directory on our computer.  For example, let’s say that we multiple projects ...

With the release of Q2 (coming in couple of weeks), our WebUI Test Studio will enable customers to build image verifications against specific elements on their pages. Image verification can be used to verify exact visual matches for both HTML pages and Silverlight applications. To record an Image Verification step in WebUI Test Studio, follow the steps below: 1. On the recorder toolbar, enable the highlighting surface: 2.  Hover over the element on the page that you wish to visually verify. For this example, I have navigated to the google.com home page and I’m going to verify the Google logo ...

WebUI Test Studio comes with two options for test execution.  The first is the result of our tight integration with Visual Studio and uses MSTest.exe.  The second, and the subject of this post, is the built-in execution engine ArtOfTest.Runner.exe.  In this post we will look at all the command line options for the ArtOfTest.Runner.exe.  In Part 1 we will look at the two execution command line options as well as how to simplify working with the command prompt.  Part 2 will be dedicated to showing the flexibility of the execution engine by showing the results publishing options. The ArtOfTest.Runner.exe is ...