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  • Productivity Testing

    Testing AJAX Dynamically Loaded Elements

    I’ve posted up two short videos covering a typical AJAX testing scenario: the elements you need to interact with haven’t yet been created – they’re waiting on some other action on the page before they populate from a call back to the server. AJAX: Working With Dynamically Loaded Elements is the first of the two and shows how to write a simple test to deal with this situation. AJAX: Data Driving Dynamically Loaded Elements is the second. This video expands on the first and shows you how to alter the first test to use data pulled in from an Excel ...
    August 30, 2011 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Backlog Management in TeamPulse

    Hi, I’m Yordan Dimitrov and I’m the Team Lead of the Sofia Team (you can check Joel’s blog about the TeamPulse Team structure). In my blogs I will discuss some of the great TeamPulse features as well as give you useful tips on how to use them to improve your development processes. So let’s start. In the new TeamPulse R2 release we’ve included a new feature we call backlog management. What is backlog management? I’ll start with the more narrow term, Product Backlog. A Product Backlog is one of the artifacts of the Scrum methodology and in Agile in general. ...
    August 30, 2011 3 min read
  • Productivity

    Keep your code tidy with JustCode

    For the 2011 Q1 release Telerik JustCode brought to its users the ability to easily reorganize code - solution, project or folder wise. One major release later - 2011 Q2, taking into account your feedback, the JustCode Cleaner has now grown even more. With only few clicks you can change thousands of lines of code to match your requirements. Just right-mouse-click in the Solution Explorer on your solution and select Just Clean All... from the menu or you can do it folder by folder and project by project. You will see a window with available options. Two default profiles are provided (Basic and Full), but custom...
    August 29, 2011 3 min read
  • Productivity

    Understanding Validation Content Element Types

    Test Studio offers you up several different validation types when you’re constructing a validation sentence targeting a content type. It’s important you understand the difference between the options you have – the subtle differences may cause unexpected failures or worse, falsely passing tests! To demonstrate the differences, I’ll use the same example HTML I used in my previous post about working with test-hostile UIs. If I select the first NewsItemContent node and look at its snippet of the DOM, we’ll see this: <div class="NewsItemContent">We continue to have more and more successes with dogfooding throughout Telerik. ("Dogfooding" ...
    August 23, 2011 5 min read
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM - Configuring MSMQ for L2Cache usage

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM uses Microsoft Message Queuing for (optional) synchronization of the L2Cache. The principal setup is described here. In some cases the default settings as described in the documentation are not sufficient. Having more than one network interface card In cases where you have more than on network interface card on the machine you are running the MSMQ, you might get into the problem, that the MSMQ doesn’t know which nic to use. In effect it starts to randomly use a nic. A message like this will appear in your event log. 1: Message Queuing found...
    August 23, 2011 2 min read