Productivity: Testing

I’ve just posted up a new video showing how you can link automation tests in Test Studio to user story acceptance criteria in Team Pulse. It’s extraordinarily simple to do! Find the video here on Telerik TV! 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. He's a blogger and evangelist for Telerik’s Test Studio, an awesome set of tools to help teams deliver better software. Find him as @aJimHolmes on Twitter.

In case you didn’t know, each Thursday we have webinars for introducing people to Test Studio. They’re an hour long with ten or 15 minutes of slides, then 45-60 minutes of demos with Q&A interwoven in. I recorded yesterday’s session and have posted it up to Telerik TV: Getting To Know Test Studio (1/5/2012). It’s just over an hour long and walks through the main features of Test Studio. I talk a lot about general automated software testing, discuss our performance testing features, and also show off our great manual testing capabilities. I also spend some time talking about ...

I’ve just posted up a new video showing how to hook Test Studio and Team Foundation Server together. The video walks through using Test Studio to open up projects from your TFS repository, then shows basic check-in/check-out features. I also walk through what merge conflicts look like in Test Studio and how to deal with them. Then I flip to Visual Studio and show how you can link User Stories to Test Cases to Automated Tests—and show how you can write bugs against specific test cases. Test Studio: Integrating With TFS I hope you find this useful!

I’ve just posted up a new video on Telerik TV, Common Functional Testing Problems, which will help you understand three common issues people run in to when working with automation for web applications: JavaScript interfering with text injection into input fields Dynamic data (such as AJAX or Silverlight service calls) where Elements you need to interact with aren’t present on the page until after a service call completes The elements you need to interact with are on the page, but the content in them isn’t present until after the service call completes The video walks you through each of ...

Microsoft announced the release of Silverlight 5 a couple of days ago. Telerik is the leader in supporting the new technologies so is our automated testing solution – Test Studio. The Silverlight Test Automation is straight forward with Test Studio no matter the SL version the application is built on top of or the Silverlight runtime on the client machine. The latest official Telerik Test Studio version released a couple of weeks ago and labeled 2011.2.1117 officially supports Silverlight 5. Download the bits from here! We also recommend the latest internal build, labeled 2011.2.1209 (yes, released the same ...