Productivity

What makes software valuable? Or, to be specific, when does software become valuable? To put it simply, software becomes valuable when the proper solution gets into the hands of the user. Software sitting on a developer’s computer, no matter how wonderfully it was designed or coded, doesn’t provide any value. Your development teams are hard at work developing the best software possible. They are employing many of the agile practices that have been developed over the past decade or so, including implementing a rapid feedback loop through increased collaboration, developing in small iterations, ensuring transparency, and responding to change. Including ...

There are many reasons why you would want to decompile an assembly with Telerik JustDecompile. Perhaps you’re curious about the inner workings of a particular reference, or maybe you’re looking for interesting techniques. But when you’re trying to solve an issue, you need to be able to quickly find what’s going wrong. Clues can range from a particular method call to an exception message, and a more robust method of searching was requested on the JustDecompile User Voice. We have answered the request in the latest version of JustDecompile. The Search Window The new search window is accessible through the common shortcut...

I’ve just posted up a new video showing how you can link automation tests in Test Studio to user story acceptance criteria in Team Pulse. It’s extraordinarily simple to do! Find the video here on Telerik TV! 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 software. Find him as @aJimHolmes on Twitter.

In case you didn’t know, each Thursday we have webinars for introducing people to Test Studio. They’re an hour long with ten or 15 minutes of slides, then 45-60 minutes of demos with Q&A interwoven in. I recorded yesterday’s session and have posted it up to Telerik TV: Getting To Know Test Studio (1/5/2012). It’s just over an hour long and walks through the main features of Test Studio. I talk a lot about general automated software testing, discuss our performance testing features, and also show off our great manual testing capabilities. I also spend some time talking about ...

I’ve just posted up a new video showing how to hook Test Studio and Team Foundation Server together. The video walks through using Test Studio to open up projects from your TFS repository, then shows basic check-in/check-out features. I also walk through what merge conflicts look like in Test Studio and how to deal with them. Then I flip to Visual Studio and show how you can link User Stories to Test Cases to Automated Tests—and show how you can write bugs against specific test cases. Test Studio: Integrating With TFS I hope you find this useful!