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Writing Software as a Kaizen Event
In the past, most developers’ approach to code is that you should write it once and hopefully never have to debug or revisit it again. This stems from the traditional waterfall approach of software development where we were trying to completely describe the entire system up front perfectly. Change was bad and bugs were not accounted for and left for the end. The Agile movement ushered in the first change to this mentality. Agile introduced the concept of refactoring, or writing your software once and then revisiting it (often if needed) and restructuring its internals for improvement (without changing its external outputs). Refactoring is a core tenant of test driven... -
Productivity Testing
New Video: Automating Silverlight Popups
I’ve just posted up a new video on Telerik TV to help folks working in Silverlight understand how to automate tests around popup child windows: Automating Silverlight Popup Child Windows with Test Studio Make sure to view the video in HD for best clarity! 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 of tools to help teams deliver better software. Find him as @aJimHolmes on Twitter.October 18, 2011 1 min read -
Productivity Testing
Using Test Oracles to Ensure Your Tests’ True Validity
Raise your hand if something similar to this has ever happened to you: You write a functional test that uses your system’s UI to create a user. You automate navigating to the proper screen, you get all the right values filled in, the Submit button gets clicked, and you do a check for the “User created!” message. You run the test a couple times to make sure everything’s working smoothly. Things look good, so you check it in to source control, where it gets wrapped in to your regular automation runs. Shortly after a new bug gets filed stating newly ...October 16, 2011 4 min read -
Mobile
How to Promote your WP7 App for Free?
Which one is harder and takes more work? Build a great WP7 app? Or make hundreds of thousands of people download your app? I had a one-hour discussion over lunch with our product team today and we finally agreed that making your app popular is probably harder. To help starting Windows Phone 7 developers build their first app and promote it for free we have a special combo offer: If you are among the first 25 people to buy RadControls for Windows Phone till the end of the month you will get 20,000 impressions for free from AdDuplex – the ad exchange network... -
Desktop
RadChart for Windows 8 WinRT - Designing the demo
We, at Telerik, are trying to be the first facing the challenge to adopt the newest technologies - and here we are now designing and developing a WinRT demo application at this early developer preview stage of the OS and developer tools. As a UX designer I was eager to start with the design and in the same time a little bit scared in front of the challenge. However it turns out it’s not as big of a challenge as I thought. Two of the most important reasons for that are: our RadControls for Windows Phone 7 completely working on WinRT... -
Productivity
Agile is for your WHOLE Business
I’ve said this very often – and I’ll say it one more time. Agile isn’t just about software development. It can be effective to manage your entire business. I’m a huge believer that many aspects of Agile should be applied to business – especially management and sales approaches. In his book Enterprise Scrum, Ken Schwaber introduces the idea of using Scrum at the enterprise level. I don’t think we need to stop at Scrum to apply Agile to Business development, sales, or virtually any corporate initiative. The principles hold true. This is becoming more and more apparent as I ... -
Productivity
A Testament to an Agile Team
I wrote a number of blog posts on a “behind the scenes look” at how the TeamPulse team works. You can read all about them here (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) As you can see, we truly value and embrace the principles behind Agile and have worked very hard to get the team to where it is today. When I started with Telerik and began to think about how I would form the team, I can’t deny that I hand picked specific people with specific personality and technical traits. In fact, I will be completely honest ... -
Productivity
The Lure of Specialization
Everyone knows that developers can’t test! Let’s face it – testers should only test. Developers should only develop as they have no clue what test cases look like and can’t be bothered with such mundane and trivial work. Asking a developer to test or to write documentation is like asking Leonardo da Vinci to build his own canvases and clean his own paint brushes. We need business analysts to tell developers exactly what we need to be developed using very detailed models and specifications (I mean.. developers understand code… they need to explicit instructions so that they know how to ... -
Productivity
Bend Telerik OpenAccess ORM to Your Will With Type Converters – Part 2 : Enums
In my previous blog I showed the basics of using Type Converters in OpenAccess ORM. I even walked through creating a very basic type converter for storing an int as a varchar in SQL Server. The example converter was very basic, so in this blog I would like to take a look at something a little more practical. In this example I will create a converter that tells OpenAccess ORM to store the value of an Enum property using the enum value’s name. Out of the box OpenAccess will persist enum’s using the enum’s underlying type which by default is int. In...October 13, 2011 3 min read -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
Location and Localization - two new charms in the Telerik AJAX CarRental sample app
When we conferred internally (in the beginning of the current quarter) on the update of the AJAX Car Rental sample application, we asked ourselves the substantial question: How can we make this example even more useful for the developers? And going through the functionality it incorporated, we made the important deduction: Add car location, to make the vehicles more easily discoverable all over the world and Include localization to remove the language barrier for users that are not proficient in English. For the first part the most natural choice was to choose to integrate...
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