Productivity: Testing

The default behavior of the WebAii Testing Framework (and WebUI Test Studio respectively) searching for the application visual elements is to timeout after a certain period of time if the element is not found. [TestMethod()] public void TelerikComSLTest1() { // Enable Silverlight testing Manager.Settings.EnableSilverlight = true; // Launch an instance of the browser Manager.LaunchNewBrowser(); // Navigate to : 'http://www.telerik.com/' ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("http://www.telerik.com/"); SilverlightApp app = this.ActiveBrowser.SilverlightApps()[0]; Image titleImage = app.Find.ByName<Image>("Title"); // will timeout if the image name is changed // Wait for visible 'TitleImage' titleImage.Wait.ForVisible(); // do whatever else is needed ...

Writing state of art unit tests that can validate your every part of the framework is challenging and interesting at the same time; it's like becoming a samurai. One of the key concept in this is to keep our test synced all the time as underlying code changes and thus breaking them to the furthest unit as possible.

The 2010 Q1 Service Pack adds an important solution to a common problem in automating Silverlight applications – ChildWindow and Popups automation support. The Problem Automating popups has always been a challenge for the UI automation tools. In Silverlight it’s even more complicated because the popup controls are not part of the SL Visual Tree. WebUI Test Studio could not access those elements in the visual tree and we couldn’t automate them. The Solution With the 2010 Q1 SP release we add a new assembly (Telerik.WebUI.PopupTracker available in the installation Bin folder) to serve as popup tracker. Those who ...

Service Pack 1 of WebUI Test Studio 2010 Q1 is now available in the Telerik client accounts. The official update includes some cool new features, important bug fixes and a lot of improvements. We recommend it to everyone interested in automation of HTML and Silverlight applications! As always the new release enhancements concern all the Automated Testing Tools. Let me highlight some of the important additions. TestExplorer: Run To Selected Step This feature has been requested quite a lot so we have now added it with the Service Pack. To use it just: - Select a step in ...

Our partners from Falafel Software are starting 2-day online training sessions on Telerik Automated Testing Tools. This instructor-led course provides students with the skills to test applications built with the latest web technologies. You will learn Telerik WebUI Test Studio Developer Edition from the ground up and you will be able to automate any website or application: HTML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, AJAX, Silverlight and MVC.  See more details and register!