Beyond Visual Studio’s testing capabilities

Find out how Telerik Test Studio goes beyond Visual Studio 2010 / 2012 testing products to offer easy tester-developer collaboration, richer user experience and enhanced productivity.
 Test Studio Visual Studio 2010 Visual Studio 2012
Point-and-click UI LimitedLimited
Easy to maintain tests   
Silverlight automation Only for Silverlight 4
Test step keyword view  Limited
Premier support
(response within 24h)
  
Native support for Telerik UI
components & Kendo UI widgets
  
Web-specific testing features
Data-driven testingAutomatedManualManual
Licensing modelStandalone app & a plugin that integrates with VS Professional Visual Studio Premium/UltimateVisual Studio Premium/Ultimate
Product updates2 major, 4 minor/ yearUnknownUnknown
Browser execution supportIE, FF, Safari, ChromeIE, FFIE, FF, Chrome (requires Selenium)
Level of complexityTechnical and non-technicalDevelopment skills requiredDevelopment skills required

The specialized vs. "one-size-fits-all" solution

Visual Studio

The Visual Studio approach to test automation is to offer a broad solution that is a good entry point for developers looking to begin test automation. As your automation needs grow, you may run into challenges that arise from Coded UI’s single approach for covering multiple technologies.

Test Studio

With Test Studio we address the specific automation needs of web and desktop applications. We studied the workflow of testers when automating web and installable apps, and their respective testing life-cycles which helped us identify areas that take the longest to automate or are very tedious.


Coded vs. Code-less (script-less) Automation

Visual Studio

In Visual Studio, to properly perform test automation of real line-of-business applications you always have to revert to the CodedUI test which is a pure C# or VB.NET class that leverages the CodedUI framework for automation.

Test Studio

Test Studio has been designed to allow most QA/Test professionals to automate without having to revert to code in most scenarios. Even complex conditional logic, element extraction, and data driven tests can be created and maintained without writing a single line of code.


UIAutomation vs. Full Application Access

Visual Studio

UIAutomation depends on application level hooks that give access to external programs to invoke or retrieve information from the application. UIAutomation is 100% dependent on the developer of the application giving access to these parts of the application; else those parts can’t be automated.

Test Studio

Test Studio’s architecture relies on having full access to the application whether it is a XAML, MVC application or an HTML page. You can access any and every element in the application and perform real-user actions against it.


Cross-Browser Support

Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2010 added support for Firefox thus allowing users to execute tests against two major browsers – Internet Explorer and Firefox. Visual Studio 2012 was finally able to include Google Chrome by leveraging the Selenium framework and its support for these browsers.

Test Studio

Not only does Test Studio offer test execution support for IE, FF, Safari and Chrome out of the box, it’s the first tool to add cross-browser test recording capabilities with its R1 2013 product update.


XAML Automation

Visual Studio

Microsoft were only able to add support of Silverlight 5 applications with their Visual Studio 2012 offering.

Test Studio

Test Studio has been automating against Silverlight since version 2 (2009) and has made many refinements in our record/playback compatibility with rich specialized features for Silverlight and WPF applications automation.


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