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  • Productivity Testing

    Organizing Your Tests

    Naming and organization is critical in keeping software systems maintainable as you move forward, especially with larger systems or systems with longer lifespans. You’ll find yourself spending large amounts of time stumbling around unclear, tangled source code if you don’t take care with how you lay out your classes, namespaces, and projects. We should take the same exact care with our tests as the systems we’re delivering to our customers, because test code IS production code. Careful naming and layout of your tests is every bit as important as the system itself—and perhaps even a bit more since we ...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Q3 Webinar for Test Studio on 11/29!

    Join us for the Q3 webinar on Test Studio on Tuesday, Nov 29th at 2pm Eastern. You can register at our GoToMeeting site. The webinar is titled “Functional and Performance Testing with Test Studio” however, I’ll also be covering the great enhancements to Test Studio just released as part of our Service Pack 1 update. Come join us! 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 ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM NuGet Packages for Code First Development

    We have a lot of exciting new features available in the Q3 2011 release of OpenAccess ORM.  Among my favorite additions are our awesome NuGet packages. These packages make it even easier to get started building a domain model using OpenAccess ORM’s fluent mapping, or code first, API. In this release we have added two NuGet packages to the NuGet repository. When these packages are added to a project, it will be configured automatically to work with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Free Edition.  Let’s take a look at these great new additions to OpenAccess. The Packages The OpenAccess.CodeFirst package sets up the project for code...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity

    The Most Efficient Way to Capture Customer Feedback in Microsoft TFS

    How much time and money would it cost you to capture feedback from 100 external users in your Microsoft Team Foundation Server projects? In this post we will show you that there is a simple and cost-effective way to do that and it's called the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal. But first let's start with some background information for TFS. The Challenges of Capturing Feedback in TFS Access to TFS  A lot of our customers use Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) as the heart of their development environment as TFS provides facilities to manage source control, manage automated builds, ...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Productivity

    Be a Keyboard Ninja!

    Telerik JustCode has tons of features available directly from your keyboard, and memorizing all the shortcuts can be quite a daunting task. We have made it easier to find these commands through Key Mappings, available from the JustCode menu or through the Ctrl+Shift+/ shortcut.
    May 27, 2021 1 min read