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    Localization of the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal

    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....
    May 24, 2012 5 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Webinar Series: Getting Started With Web UI Automation

    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 ...
    May 23, 2012 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Localization of the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal

    With the 2012 R2 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. Based on our customers’...
    May 21, 2012 5 min read
  • Productivity

    The Import Project from TFS Wizard in TeamPulse

    “Click-Click-Click-Done” That’s how Joel Semeniuk, Executive VP of Agile Project Management at Telerik, defined “done” for our TeamPulse integration with the Team Foundation Server. Last Thursday we released the Service Pack to our R2 Release and it is exclusively focused on the integration with TFS. To meet Joel’s requirements, we created the Import Project from TFS wizard. The new Import Project from TFS wizard can be launched as soon as you start TeamPulse. And here is how the integration goes step by step. Select a Project Once the connection to your server is established, you can decide which project to import ...
    May 19, 2012 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Why I Hate Unit Testing

    So you went to work for the cool company that wooed you with promises of cutting edge technologies and techniques. In the interview, they told you that they are agile and unit test everything. You may or may not have been in an agile environment before, but the important thing you are enthusiastic about joining a team that truly gets software development. You tested on your previous job, even using JustMock to write better tests. You promise you can be agile yourself and quickly adopt their practices. You’re immediately hired. Many of you have been there… maybe you’re there right now. It takes...
    May 17, 2012 5 min read