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  • Productivity Testing

    Announcing WebUI Test Studio: Test Automation Has Never Been So Easy

    I’m excited to announce publicly that from Q1 2009 the Telerik portfolio will be extended with the WebUI Test Studio product. Powered by ArtOfTest, the new test automation solution reduces to minimum the efforts needed to test your Web Applications regardless complexity and structure. In order to make the life of developers and QAs working with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX even easier, the tool also extends the Automation Design Canvas codeless recording solution to operate over the RadControls Web Apps. Read more on the product home page.   Why is it so easy? The environment is well-known – ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Selenium Extensions for RadControls (ASP.NET AJAX)

    Although I ended my Selenium adventure a few months ago, there is a final topic I’d like to cover here. This one completes my set of posts concerning RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX test automation with Selenium. The tool, the Telerik ASP.NET QA team relied on during the past couple of years, helped us catch in time most of the bugs in RadControls that never came into production! A curios fact here is that Selenium 1.0 official release is finally coming soon after many years of development! Check out the recent post on Selenium blog announcing the exciting news. ...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    A Vote for Extensibility in Test Automation Solutions

    I hope I haven’t confused anyone mentioning the weak points of test automation in my previous post. The gained experience however indicates the importance of looking into test automation based on straight-forward and easily maintained solutions. That’s a problem people have been trying to solve for more then a decade now. In the current post I’d like to get your attention to a key of successful test automation via using the tools extensibility. Nowadays there are plenty of test automation solutions especially for the well-known platforms like ASP.NET Web. Should you consider automate your testing activities, you will probably ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Don'ts in Software Testing

    Sounds like a book title, doesn’t it? No, I haven’t written a book on software testing. I’m on my way though, I just need fifteen or twenty years of Alan Page’s, Ken Johnston’s and BJ Rollisson’s experience and I’m ready to go with a new testing bible like the just announced “How We Test Software at Microsoft®”. Check out Alan’s and BJ’s posts on the subject here and here. I’m sure the authors, who lead the Microsoft testing division of about 8000 testers, have a lot to share, but I was also happy to see the post ...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    The UI Automation Support Highest Requirements – UIA Verify Tool Update with Preconditions Failure

    Overall, we got quite good impression from the UIA Verify tool, I wrote about last week. Yet, there is an issue that provoked me to download the source and modify the tool behavior. As a tester, I believe the automated tests should pass only when you get the full test running through all the actions and verifications. The original UIA Verify though marks as passed all the tests which preconditions are not met. That doesn’t help much if you need to verify all the scenarios pass successfully, does it? I’ve modified the source so now the failed preconditions cause test ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read