Productivity

As a QA professional, it’s important to get involved with the development team early on in the process. This article will discuss just one of the many benefits in doing so – coding standards and the use of ID’s for enhanced team productivity. Require this up front and you can significantly cut back test case maintenance. No matter what software you use for your test automation, the method in which elements are identified plays a critical role. Small changes to your application can often break the test’s ‘find logic’ causing your test runs to fail. Let’s say a couple elements ...

“Our team is agile because we stand up for meetings!” It’s the perennial joke of the agile community. We’ve all heard of teams that feel that they are doing agile development because they stand up for their meetings. (I sincerely hope that it is more urban legend than truth.) The reality is that there is more to agile than stand up meetings and there is more to stand up meetings than simply standing. Let’s look at some of the key aspects of the stand up meeting and how you can make yours more effective. Just the Facts, Ma’am At the ...

Introduction A while back, someone pointed me to this news article containing a Google Documents based spreadsheet with information about UK Inflation. Since I typically spend a lot of time working with Telerik Reporting, I thought it would be fun to create my own report based on this data. Accessing Google Data from .NET One of the cool things about Google is that they are a very data oriented company. Pretty much all of their services are centered on storing, organizing, and maintaining different types of data. They make this data extremely easy to access through the use of ...

We are pleased to announce the official release of WebUI Test Studio Q3 SP2. The service pack release contains over 100 updates in areas including test execution, HTML automation, Silverlight automation, test scheduling, test explorer, storyboard view, elements explorer, DOM explorer and much more. Download SP2 Today! Creating a new test project in our Developer Edition is now easier than ever with our new WebUI Test Studio option added to the Visual Studio Telerik menu.   For those of you who have not seen our product roadmap for the forthcoming R1 2011 release - I encourage you to check it ...

It is hard to believe that January is already behind us as we dive deeper into 2011. For the testing tools we saw an amazing year of product growth and innovation and I would like to share with you some big announcements from the testing tools division for the upcoming year. The first big announcement is that we are going to have two major releases a year for Telerik automated testing tools in order to focus more on new product development and new feature development. The R1 release will be around the end of April and the R2 release will ...