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  • Productivity

    Visual Studio Tip: Debugging Hints

    Tracking down those pesky flaws in a piece of code is, in my humble opinion, the most challenging part of software development. Thankfully we have a top-notch debugger built into Visual Studio. Unfortunately, the debugger is one of the features of Visual Studio that I am the least proficient with. I know how to set a breakpoint and take a look at the values of my local variables when that breakpoint is reached, but beyond that I'm pretty much clue-less. Well, I was lucky enough to attend John Cunningham's talk at PDC last week and learned quite a few valuable tips that enhanced...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    The UI Automation Support Highest Requirements – UIA Verify Tool Update with Preconditions Failure

    Overall, we got quite good impression from the UIA Verify tool, I wrote about last week. Yet, there is an issue that provoked me to download the source and modify the tool behavior. As a tester, I believe the automated tests should pass only when you get the full test running through all the actions and verifications. The original UIA Verify though marks as passed all the tests which preconditions are not met. That doesn’t help much if you need to verify all the scenarios pass successfully, does it? I’ve modified the source so now the failed preconditions cause test ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    UI Automation Support in RadControls for Silverlight Q3 2008

    The new release of RadControls for Microsoft Silverlight is out with a couple of new controls and tons of improvements in the old components. In case you’ve missed, the new demos are uploaded and available here. You may need to delete your browser cache if you still don’t see the new cool home page:     Along with the other improvements, the UI Automation support in Silverlight controls suite is greatly enhanced. Now the following components (I’ve ordered them alphabetically) officially support UI Automation: - ComboBox/ComboBoxItem - Expander - Menu/MenuItem - NumericUpDown - PanelBar/PanelBarItem - ProgressBar - Slider...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Testing RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax with Watir – How easy it is

    Today was my first attempt at writing tests for RadControls with Watir and was surprised how easy it is. I found over the internet a good article on how to test ASP.NET applications using Watir and also referred to the Hristo Deshev’s blog post about Automating Complex JavaScript-rich Controls with Watir. If you use the approach described in it and create a watir_telerik_extensions.rb file, you will be able to create tests very quickly. See below a few tests about RadMenu, RadComboBox and RadTreeView which I have created in minutes: 1. This is a RadComboBox test which opens the drop down ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Telerik Reporting - Tips and Tricks

    What better source for tips and tricks for your beloved Reporting product, than a blog spot right from the kitchen where the product is ‘mixed’. As of this post, we would like to start a small series of tips and tricks that make a developers’ life sweeter. We’re not going to discuss general topics, so if you’re looking for answers for one of those questions – please review our documentation and our forums. As you can guess, the sub-report item, which lets you display one report within another report is widely used in Telerik Reporting.  It lets you compose complex reports from...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read