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  • People

    Considering Attending STARWEST? We have Discount Codes!

    Are you considering attending STARWEST, one of the premiere software testing conferences? We've got a discount code that can help you save a good amount of money off your tickets! If you're interested please contact me via e-mail and I'd be happy to pass the code on -- no strings attached, and no, I won't add you to some mailing list! My e-mail is Jim.Holmes@Telerik.com. 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 ...
    August 06, 2011
  • Release

    2011 R1 / SP2 Release Webinar Recording Now Online!

    Looking for a summary of the new features from the R1 2011 SP2 release of Test Studio? The recording of the webinar from a couple weeks ago is now live on Telerik's site! In this video you can see Dan Levy do a deep dive into several new features in the latest release. The coverage of the new Find Expression builder and his dive in to the Element Repository Explorer are interesting -- they dovetail in nicely with my discussion of keeping your tests maintainable.
    August 06, 2011
  • People

    Vote for Test Studio in ATI's Annual Poll!

    We're proud to have Test Studio included in the Automated Testing Institute's annual Honors poll of top industry-wide tools and resources! The poll breaks out different areas of tooling, presentations, blogs, and other resources, so it's a great poll to read simply to find other areas of testing to investigate. Please take a moment and stop by the poll. Of course we'd appreciate your vote for Test Studio! (And if we don't get your vote, please let me know why. I'd love your feedback via the comments here or direct mail [Jim.Holmes@Telerik.com])
    August 04, 2011
  • Productivity Testing

    Working with Test-Hostile Web UIs

    Part of what I’ll be blogging about over the next few months is my journey to become an expert with Test Studio. I’m not an expert yet, but I do bring a long history of applying tooling and frameworks to solving real-world problems, and I’m going to be working through many of those same problems in short order—figuring out how to solve those same problems is an awesome way to learn a new tool or framework’s strengths and weaknesses. I hope that by sharing my discoveries I’ll help you work through some of the same common problems! First up in ...
    August 02, 2011
  • Productivity Testing

    Follow up to Maintainable Automation

    During my first-ever webinar with Telerik this week I spoke briefly about learning how to keep your tests maintainable. This is something near and dear to my heart – I’ve been on a number of projects where we’ve had to suffer through test suites which became ever more brittle as time went on. Brittle tests break frequently due to unrelated changes in the system’s workflow, UI, or business rules. Of course, tests should fail when something directly relating to the test is broken—that’s why we have the tests!—but one change to a web page unrelated to the specific area you’re ...
    July 22, 2011