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  • Productivity

    Encrypting Login Information

    Greetings, fellow testers. In yesterday's blog post, and the related video, I showed a test that entered a username and password as part of a login process. Hopefully you noticed something disturbing there — storing a password in plain-text and letting it be displayed for all to see. Though perhaps that's ok with non-production systems, it's still not normally something you'd want to do very often. Fortunately, there are a couple of properties we can set on the test step to control this. The first one to look at is IsPassword. Changing this to True will mask the ...
    June 07, 2013 2 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Reporting or Control Suites – What to use when – Part 2

    It is a difficult decision to know when it is best to deliver a reporting solution over a control implemented solution. In part 2 of this series we dive deeper into a case where a reporting solution should be used.
    June 06, 2013 7 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Data-Driven Tests - Logon and Setup Steps

    Greetings, fellow testers. Last week we talked about Data Driven Tests and how they can speed through dozens or hundreds of variations quickly for you. In the example I used a simple sample application, just a web page with a form. Often we need to log in and/or perform some setup steps before the actual "meat" of the test, or have some cleanup tasks after we're done — we certainly wouldn't want to do that for every iteration. That would be silly and time-wasting. Let's look at a better way. Here's our simple test, modified to use a login screen. ...
    June 06, 2013 2 min read
  • Productivity

    INotifyPropertyChanged out of the box

    INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyPropertyChanging interface implementations for all persistent properties will be only one click away with Q2 2013 of OpenAccess ORM!
    June 05, 2013 1 min read
  • 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.
    June 05, 2013 7 min read