Productivity

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is certainly an interesting upgrade for the SQL Server, offering lots of improvements and new features. There are many things that might tempt you to migrate to 2012 or at least to start your new projects based on it, but to name a few: Enhancements for higher availability New and improved version of the SQL Server Management Studio Easier migration – the new Side-by-Side Migration option makes the migration from older versions of SQL Server safer and the rollback easier, which can be crucial. In the same time, you can do even an In Place migration (only if...

After the last TeamPulse release, you have the chance to use an upgraded version of the Ideas & Feedback Portal that allows you to fully style the portal and get closer to your company’s look and feel. Here is the original look of the feedback portal.

Join us Wednesday, 16 May, at 11am US Eastern time, to learn how Test Studio’s performance testing and just-released load testing features can help you detect bottlenecks in your system’s performance and answer business-critical questions about your site’s ability to handle large amounts of traffic. This webinar will focus solely on Test Studio’s Performance and Load Testing features. We’ll be drilling down in to some great specifics of how these features can help you respond to questions from management like “Will our site be able to support traffic after this new product’s launch?” and “Are our customers happy when ...

If you were following Twitter last this last weekend (4 and 5 May) you may have seen a number of Tweets tagged with #TelSum. That was the Telerik Testing Summit, a peer conference held in Austin, Texas. Telerik welcomed a number of thought leaders in the testing and software industry to Austin, Texas, for two days of discussions on the state of software development. More importantly, we as a group were focused on what we could do to try and improve things. Telerik was represented by myself and Phil Sams, plus Holly Bertoncini, our event organizer. Joining us ...

A good test case is neither too small nor too big. A good test case stands alone, sets up pre-test conditions, exercises the application under test (AUT), verifies one thing, reports the results of the verification, then if applicable, cleans up (usually data) and reports the overall test case result; pass or fail.