Productivity: Testing

Test Studio 2012 R2 is nearly here! How close is it? I’ll tell you tomorrow. In the meantime, please join us for our release webinar next Wednesday, 26 September, at 11AM US Eastern. (Register here.) We’ll record the webinar and post it to Telerik TV; however, attending the webinar gives you the chance to ask questions and interact during the webinar. And one of you attending live will be lucky enough to win a free Instructor Led Online Training Session worth $349! The R2 release adds significant functionality around our Load and Performance testing, plus there are some ...

The video from last week’s webinar on solving common problems in web automation is live on Telerik TV! Watch this video and you’ll learn some tricks for dealing with locators, dynamic content, and tables. Please note this is a fairly generic webinar. I spent most of my time using WebDriver in C#. There’s a bit of Test Studio, but it’s more about the overall domain. I hope you find it useful! About the author Jim Holmes Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools" and Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. ...

Yesterday I hosted an hour-long webinar on Solving Common Web UI Automation Problems. The point of this webinar wasn’t to show off Test Studio; I actually did the vast amount of the webinar using WebDriver and C#. (I’m always happy to get an excuse to dive back in to writing some code…) I’m working on uploading the video; however, that likely won’t be live until tomorrow. In the meantime, please enjoy these other resources from the webinar: My main slide deck: My "Why U No Test Yur UI" deck Source code for the demos (all on my GitHub profile) Generic ...

This one is kind of advanced. You can add a coded step to your test (or convert  an existing step to code). When you do that - a so-called "code-behind file" is generated. The file in question is simply a C#/VB class file that has the exact same name as your test:   You can open and edit the entire class file from Standalone by using the View Class button: And you'll be able to do anything you would expect from a class file - define custom functions, add assembly references, define global variables etc. In fact, all your coded ...

Using safe, generic accounts for testing is a boon; however, sometimes that’s simply not possible. Corporate policies may prevent “fake” accounts, or perhaps the test accounts have access to sensitive areas. In these cases it’s critical you’re able to secure the logon credentials. Test Studio’s Service Pack 2 for our 2012 R1 release now enables you to securely encrypt passwords in your tests with just a simple click. Here’s how a test logging on to our demo app looks. You can see the password is stored in clear text in the test: The password is also stored in clear text ...