Great news, everyone! The latest update of WebUI Test Studio came out last night. And just like all Telerik products, our web testing solution now supports Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2! As always, Telerik is leveraging the latest Microsoft technologies to ensure we deliver leading-edge updates to you. Now you can enjoy all your Test Studio favorite features in VS 2010 as well – Automation Overlay Surface, Test, DOM, and Elements Explorer, and more.

We recommend the new official release as it is “the latest and greatest” of WebUI Test Studio! Besides support for Visual Studio 2010, the service ...

When creating UI automated tests our main goal is to always simulate environment as close to the real one as possible. As you may all know simulating typing in an input has always been a pain when working with Selenium.

In fact ‘pain’ is an understatement. There are scenarios which cannot be simulated at all with Selenium due to the fact that some client events of the control are not executed when they should. This is an indication that something is very wrong with the whole simulation as we are not getting the results which are observed when a ...

The new major release of WebUI Test Studio is now officially live! You can get the bits from your Telerik account and enjoy the powerful AJAX and Silverlight test automation.

Before I dig into the recent updates, I’d like to thank all involved from the ArtOfTest and Telerik teams for the great release! The numerous new features and tons of improvements made this dream come true – WebUI Test Studio v2.0 is a must-have tool for all of the Web automation addicted.

I’d also like to say a big “Thanks” to all of you - our customers, who constantly ...

Mr. David Burns recently raised a pretty good question – is testing elegant? He lists a couple of examples how testing is far from elegant. The simple scenario he mentioned in relation to test automation brought my full attention – imagine a change in an element being used in many tests (could be a simple ID change, or any attribute modification for example). In such a case you may end up with a lot of failing tests and well, you should be extra careful even if any “global replace” is an option with your framework/tool.

In this post I’d like ...

One of the features I really enjoy in WebAii v2.0 is the RecycleBrowser option. It changes the behavior of your tests, i.e. they keep running in the same browser instance (when set to ‘true’) instead of opening a new browser for each test. The default value is ‘false’ for consistency with the previous framework versions behavior. You can programmatically update that setting via the Settings class or using the Application’s config file.

However, there are some details you should have in mind when using that option.

We do use the RecycleBrowser option in the WebAii Testing Framework Sample Tests ...

I’m happy to announce that after all the efforts of the ArtOfTest and Telerik teams during the last several months the product is now ready for you to enjoy! WebUI Test Studio v2.0 (Beta) is out with the Q3 2009 release and the final v2.0 is expected in December.

WebAii Framework

First of all, our advanced Click & Play automation solution is now upgraded with the latest WebAii Testing Framework! This means that all the additions we worked on and released till now in the automation framework are finally available in WebUI Test Studio as well. For all interested ...

No doubt StackOverflow.com became a great resource for software developers. As a tester though, I’ve been looking for a good Q&A tester oriented alternative for a long time now.

That’s why I really enjoyed the news about Testing.StackExchange site availability. It actually shares the same successful technology as Stack Overflow and has the potential to become as helpful as its brother is. Although it’s still new, I’ve already found some great experts in the software testing field not only signed-in but actively contributing.

Credits go to Mr. Justin Hunter who announced the site several weeks ago. Thanks also to Alan ...

Who says automated functional tests cannot be a part of a Continuous Integration system? Or do you miss the proper tools?

A Telerik customer, Sebastian Klapp, submitted a Code Library project about a sample CI system that runs WebAii Testing Framework Silverlight tests. Mr. Klapp shares their integration of WebAii tests, NUnit framework and CruiseControl.NET in this project. The result is a powerful CI system that assures their Silverlight application (based on RadControls for Silverlight) functions correctly on every developer source control check-in!

Check it out!

The submission can surely help as a tutorial for building a system that ...

There is about a month left to the major Q3 release and the free Web Automation Framework has been steadily evolving. We have just released an important update I highly recommend it to everyone who is interested in the easy test automation for both ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight based applications with or without RadControls on the board.

The list of release notes is quite long including updates to all the components – the WebAii core framework, the product installer, WebAii RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight control wrappers. There are significant improvements especially in the Silverlight automation. Here I’d like ...

Along with the Service Pack of RadControls for Silverlight Q2 we released an update of the free test automation solution, the WebAii Testing Framework. There are additions, fixes and improvements in all the components including the core WebAii, WebAii RadControls for Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX. With this post I’d like to bring your attention to the latest addition to our Silverlight controls wrappers – the RadHtmlPlaceholder one.

As you probably know, the control itself is a pretty useful component part of the RadControls for Silverlight suite. RadHtmlPlaceholder allows you to host any HTML content in your Silverlight application ...