Productivity: Testing

Frames are not well liked it seems. Digging around the web I find that lot of people consider using frames very poor practice. Now I'm not a web developer so I really wouldn't know about that. But what I can tell you is that automating frames can be tricky. There's some things you'll need to know if you want to save yourself a lot of frustration. And here we go (all this stuff is in the context of Test Studio):  You need to find Frames before you can use them Frames contains objects. If you want to automate ...

Technorati Tags: TDD,Test Driven Development,JustMock,JustCode,NUnit,NUnit.Should,Mocking Before diving into mocking with JustMock, it’s important to note that JustMock is a mocking framework, and not a testing framework.  Test frameworks allow for creating Test Fixtures, which are .NET classes decorated with the appropriate attributes so they are picked up by a Test Runner.  Test are created within a Test Fixture by writing methods (with the appropriate attributes) that exercise your code (also referred to as the System Under Test) and report the results.  Test Runners are programs that will run your tests.  There are many free testing frameworks available for .NET developers, including MSTest (included...

Test Studio’s IF Conditional steps are extraordinarily handy feature which enable you to handle branching in your tests based on specific conditions. There are a number of scenarios where this can ensure your tests are a bit more robust—logging in to your system if needed is one example. (Note: There are also many situations where I recommend against using conditionals. Don’t use them to conflate separate test cases. Keep your test cases simple, specific, and granular!) Here’s a tip I just learned today: Editing an IF conditional’s verification. This is nice feature because it allows you to update your conditional ...

*this article talks about HTML-based apps; Silverlight is a different story For today's lesson we're going to talk about the most basic of scenarios: automating your Login screen. Sure this might seem simple. But lately I've noticed that some new Test Studio users struggle with this. The question you might be asking yourself is: "I thought Test Studio is supposed to be the most intuitive UI automation tool on the market? How can recording a simple Login sequence be so complex that it requires its own blog post?" OK, that's actually two questions. Anyway, the thing is that when you're ...

You’ve been waiting, we’ve been working. Now it’s time to drop the curtains and get Test Studio 2012’s R2 release out to you! We’ve got a number of great features that will help you focus your time and effort on critical factors in the systems you’re delivering. Here are my three favorite parts of the new release: Gooooaaaaaaaal! Got goals for your load testing efforts? Likely! (And if you don’t, you should!) With the R2 release you can now add in specific thresholds in metrics such as response times, HTTP errors, etc. Load test runs will pass or fail as ...