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  • Productivity Reporting

    Reporting or Control Suites – What to use when – Part 1

    It's a tough decision to know when it is best to use a reporting solution or when it's better to use a control suite. In part 1 of the series, we go over some of the high-level criteria that can help you along in your decision then dive into a control suite sample using live data and the RadChartView control for WinForms.
    May 27, 2021 7 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Manual Testing - the Next Step

    Greetings, fellow testers. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Manual Testing using Test Studio. As I pointed out, brining your existing manual tests into Test Studio is a great way to get started, and provides a better platform for reporting results over time than simple spreadsheets normally do. Your next step might be to take advantage of Test Studio's automation to ease your way through actually performing the manual tests. You probably have many tests that begin with the same set of instructions - log on, navigate to a particular page, perhaps creating some data - before ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Data Annotation attributes in seconds

    Find out about one of the cool new features that will be offered by Q2 2013 of Telerik OpenAccess ORM - automatic generation of Data Annotation attributes.
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Avoid Unnecessary Verifications

    I frequently see teams new to test automation making a number of common mistakes. One of those is adding in unnecessary verifications. Verifications are obviously a critical piece of good tests—it’s validating the system is working as we expect for that particular test case. Where new automation crews get confused is whether to add explicit verifications when navigating through their application, or after an explicit wait has been used to handle an asynchronous operation like an AJAX call or some JavaScriptish operation on the local browser UI. (The same concepts work for XAML or mobile applications!) Avoid Verifying Navigation Let’s ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity

    Understanding .NET Just-In-Time Compilation

    Learn more about the fundamentals of .NET compilation including the different types of compilation, how they work, and what their pros and cons are. Dive deeper into the specifics of JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation and discover how JustTrace and JustMock are involved in the process of compilation.
    May 27, 2021 5 min read