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    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
  • Productivity

    Come to the Agile Buffet Table to Fill Your Plate

    We decided to try a brand new concept for the next Agile Q&A Panel. It is called the Agile Buffet Table and will be held on May 24th, Thursday. The topic of the webinar will evolve around the fact that you don’t need to follow all agile principles per se.
    May 16, 2012 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Testing Summit Highlights Video Posted!

    Last week I wrote a quick summary of the Telerik Testing Summit. I’m happy to announce we’ve got a short video posted up showing some of the highlights of the discussions during the first day of the conference: If you’re not already, why not follow our Test Studio YouTube channel? 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 ...
    May 16, 2012 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Load and Performance Testing; What’s the Difference?

    The difference turns out to be a lot! To start with load and performance testing goals are very different. Load testing goals usually seek to answer questions regarding system capacity, throughput, and client response times for multiple concurrent users. For example, how many concurrent users can the system successfully accommodate? Or how many transactions per second can the system successfully process? Or can the system successfully scale to 1,000 users? Whereas 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 ...
    May 16, 2012 3 min read
  • Productivity Debugging

    Got a Bug? File a Report

    Telerik’s TeamPulse is a terrific project management tool for boosting communication in and between projects. We’re constantly looking for ways to better integrate Test Studio with TeamPulse to clearly communicate quality metrics around your automated tests back to the projects. We’ve had integration tying tests to acceptance criteria in TeamPulse for some time, but with Test Studio’s 2012 R1 release we’ve kicked up the integration another notch: You can now push bug reports from Test Studio directly to your TeamPulse projects from anywhere you can examine a failing test: the test explorer, test results calendar, or test list details. (...
    May 16, 2012 2 min read