Productivity

Stop me if you’ve seen or experienced this before: a chaotic project environment is leaving your team missing critical ideas from customers or stakeholders. You’re unable to get good discussions around what you want to build, how you want to build it, and how you’re planning on testing it. You can’t keep an eye on the status of your automated tests – oh, wait. You don’t have time to write them, much less track their status, and how those tests tie to the particular features you’re building and maintaining. Let’s not even bring up bug tracking, shall we? I’ve been ...

In Doing Your First Mock, Mehfuz Hossain explained why you should use mocking to improve your unit tests and then used a real world example to demonstrate this technique. In this post, I will take you down a different path using other forms of stand-ins.

Performance testing goals seek to answer questions regarding server processing, and client response times for a single user. The primary goal of performance testing is to tune the system to achieve maximum performance, [e.g. execute a given amount of work (transactions) in the least amount of time (transactions per second (TPS)].  Test Studio, from Telerik, has long been capable of performance testing. Any Test Studio functional test can also be used as a performance test. To execute a performance test in Test Studio, there are just three steps: 1) Create or select an existing web functional test that satisfies ...

With the 2012 R3 Release, localization of the Ideas and Feedback Portal is as easy as editing a text file!  Background Localization is the process of changing the text in an application to another language, or locale.  Well designed applications allow for changing the text that is displayed without having to branch the source code and recompile, and TeamPulse certainly falls into this category.  Built on Microsoft’s .NET Platform, TeamPulse takes full advantage of the localization features provided by the .NET Framework, allowing you to customize the Ideas and Feedback portal to the language that best meets your needs....

I mentioned earlier that we’ll be hosting a three day “lunch and learn” format webinar designed to help folks new to web UI automation get off on the right foot. We’ll be covering lots of fundamental concepts to help you and your team succeed with automation instead of falling in to the pit of despair. You can start signing up now for the webinar! You’ll only need to sign up once, and you can join us for any or all of the sessions. The webinar is a three day series, with each day’s sessions running somewhere between 30 and ...