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• Design Canvas 2.0 Released

  12/10/2009 8:30:00 AM

  It is official! WebAii 2.0 and Design Canvas 2.0 are released. Since Beta in early November we have fixed over 122 issues reported from our internal testing, our partners and end users. Design Canvas 2.0 and WebAii 2.0 are packed with new features and most importantly first class support for Silverlight record/playback automation.

  Download WebAii 2.0 / Design Canvas 2.0 from here.

  We are also conducting a joined (free) webinar with Telerik today Dec 10th @ 11:00AM-12:00PM EST, to introduce the new features in Design Canvas 2.0. We will also be giving out a free license to one of the attendees. So sign-up today!

  To get familiar with Design Canvas 2.0 new features, please check out our beta post here. Since the beta we have enhanced and added several features to help make recording and playback much more reliable. Some of the key enhancements since the beta:

   ...

  by ArtOfTest

• Design Canvas 2.0 Beta Released!

  11/4/2009 3:07:00 PM

  We are happy to announce the availability of Design Canvas 2.0 Beta! Design Canvas 2.0 is a major update to our flagship Design Canvas product line and is packed with new features and updates.

  Silverlight recording and playback is now fully supported in Design Canvas!!!

  Design Canvas 2.0 Beta can be downloaded from here.

  We are planning the final release the beginning of December this year. We really want to hear your feedback so we encourage you to share it at our Design Canvas 2.0 forum here.

  Watch Getting Started Video here

  What’s New in 2.0?

  As mentioned, Design Canvas is a major upgrade and contains tons of new features and enhancements. Let’s start by talking about the biggest new feature in Design Canvas 2.0 which is support for Silverlight Automation.

  Silverlight Automation:

  We’ve spent over a  year studying and understanding the usage scenarios for Silverlight automation ...

  by ArtOfTest

• CI with WebAii for Silverlight

  10/21/2009 4:46:00 AM

  Continuous integration is a topic of great interest to many…. I wanted to point everyone to a code library project that one of Telerik’s customers has posted on their Code Library. 

  The project shows how to integrate WebAii for Silverlight testing with NUnit + CruiseControl.NET

  Check out the full blog post here:

  We also have full documentation on how to use WebAii with different integration servers on our documentation site.

   Overview of WebAii with Continuous Integration.

   WebAii + TFS Server Builds

   WebAii + CruiseControl.NET

   WebAii + TeamCity

   

  Hope that helps.

  by ArtOfTest

• Updated WebAii 2.0 Beta Released

  10/6/2009 3:05:00 AM

  We are making available a new update for the WebAii 2.0 Beta. This Beta is version 2.0.4. This should be the last beta release of the WebAii 2.0 framework. The next release should be the final release! Expect the final release sometime in November this year.

  Download WebAii 2.0 Beta (2.0.4) from here.

  Many customers have already moved to the WebAii 2.0 release and the feedback has been tremendous. We know the 2.0 final release is going to be one of our best releases given the large amount of adoption and dogfooding in the community! This release contains over 300 fixes since 2.0.2. Some that are worth noting and that customers have run into:

  1. TypeText reliability issues.
  2. Added Custom control mappings collection and global override support.
  3. New FrameworkElement.GetProperties() method returns a list of all public properties on the live FrameworkElement and their types.
  4. Scan entire visual tree when UID ...

  by ArtOfTest

• Telerik RadControl Test Wrappers

  7/6/2009 9:00:00 AM

  I’m happy to announce Telerik’s Q2 2009 release now includes the WebAii Framework as part of their RadControls for AJAX and Silverlight bundles. The release is based on WebAii 2.0 Beta2 that was released last week. 

  In addition to the full WebAii Framework, this release also includes Telerik’s RadControl test wrappers for both Ajax and Silverlight. Telerik used WebAii’s framework architecture and extensibility model to build abstract test wrappers for all their controls that ship in the box. The wrappers give customers a rich and powerful object model to work with for their controls so they don’t have to worry about internal specifics of how the control works. The wrappers also ensure backward compatibility for UI tests built against websites using RadControls. So if you use Telerik RadControls, you can now simply use these wrappers in addition to the full power of WebAii to code your unit UI tests easily!  ...

  by ArtOfTest

• WebAii 2.0 Beta2 Released!

  6/29/2009 11:18:00 AM

  We are happy to announce the release of the highly anticipated WebAii Beta2 to the public. Beta2 contains lots of enhancements in terms of bug fixes and feature requests. Beta2 also contains some of the refactoring work that we have been working on for a while now. If you have not used WebAii 2.0 yet, check out the general feature set it contains here.

  DOWNLOAD BETA2

  (Make sure to uninstall beta1 before installing beta2)

  As for Beta2, here are some of the highlights that are worth noting:

  1. Silverlight Automation: We have spent a substantial amount of time to enhance and fix any issues reported by customers on the forums to make Silverlight automation experience as rich and seamless as possible including support for Silverlight 3. Here are some of the key advancements in Beta2:

  1. No Proxy needed in IE: When running Silverlight automation in Internet Explorer, ...

  by ArtOfTest

• Free Webinar July 1st

  5/26/2009 11:00:00 AM

  Our friends at Falafel, Inc. are conducting a new Webinar on July 1st. This time the Webinar is FREE!!

  Click on this link to register today!

  Topics for this Webinar include: Browser Support Test Regions Silverlight automation Ajax Testing Best practices

  These topics touch on areas of the product that we know customers are very interested in and we feel will be of great help to anyone doing test automation using WebAii or Design Canvas. Whether you are just starting or are an advanced user, this webinar will be of added value to you. We encourage everyone to attend! If you are interested, please sign-up soon before we run out of seats.

  ArtOfTest Team

  by ArtOfTest

• Automating Real World Silverlight Apps.

  5/14/2009 1:44:00 PM

  As promised I will dedicate this post to talk more about Silverlight automation using WebAii in more depth. To help illustrate the power of WebAii, I decided to pick a real world application rather than a “Hello World”/”Calculator” type of application. This will hopefully make this post more relevant to what testers might face as more application developers adopt Silverlight.

  The application I chose is a Health Care application built by Microsoft’s Health Common User Interface (CUI). The application is live and can be viewed here. The application shows off the capabilities of Silverlight and gives us a glimpse into what we might expect from the next generation of web applications built using Silverlight. 

  Let’s start by dissecting some aspects of that application that a tester might be interested in testing. I will then demonstrate how some of these areas can be automated using WebAii.

  As a tester I ...

  by ArtOfTest

• Intro to Silverlight Automation

  5/11/2009 12:00:00 PM

  Silverlight automation has been our main focus since the release of Automation Design Canvas 1.1 earlier this year. Lots of customers ask us when Design Canvas will support Silverlight recording and I want to assure everyone that we are actively working on it. It is our #1 priority here at ArtOfTest. We do hope to preview our recording for Silverlight (which I'm sure is going to impress many) soon. Silverlight recording will be part of Automation Design Canvas 2.0 when its released.

  As for this blog post, I'm going to dedicate it to talk more about WebAii 2.0 framework and its impressive support for automating Silverlight applications. WebAii 2.0 is going to be the framework on top of which Automation Design Canvas 2.0 and Silverlight recording/execution will be built.

  In this post, I would like to discuss the following:

  1. Why WebAii 2.0 sticks out as the clear choice when looking ...

  by ArtOfTest

• First WebAii Webinar - May 21st

  4/22/2009 9:12:00 PM

  

  In parternship with Falafel Inc, we are excited to kick-off our first series of online webinars that target both our WebAii framework and Automation Design Canvas! The first webinar is scheduled for May 21st and will be an introduction to the capabilities of both the framework and the automation design canvas.

  To sign-up please visit this link

  Details:

  TOPIC: Introduction to Automation Design Canvas and WebAii

  WHEN: Thursday, May 21st,  9:00 to 11:00 am PST

  WHERE: Anywhere with an internet connection.  You can use VOIP or phone line to listen in on the Webinar

  AGENDA for the 2 hours is the following:

   

  1. Introduction to ADC & WebAii
  2. UI Overview
  3. Browser Support and User Settings
  4. DOM Explorer and Elements locations
  5. Testing AJAX applications
  6. Verification Builder
  7. Testing with Code
  8. Debugging WebAii in VS 2008
  9. Recording Popups
  10. TestCase Reuse
  11. Finally the last 15 minutes will be open to Q&A.

   

  Based on ...

  by ArtOfTest

• WebAii 2.0 Beta Released!

  3/25/2009 6:12:08 PM

  WebAii 2.0 (Beta-v2.0.0.1) is ready for public consumption! Download it now from here.

  Our 2.0 release is a big release. It contains tons of new features that we promised customers and have been working on for a while now. Our documentation for this release is being worked on as we speak.

  Below is a break-down of all the main new features in 2.0!

  1. Safari (Windows) Browser Support:

  This is probably the feature that took the most effort to build but is the easiest to use. Simply set your “BrowserType” to Safari and your automation should execute against that browser. Make sure you have Safari installed though. That is Safari for Windows! You can also set that in your app.config file too.

  You can easily test this feature out by taking one of your existing WebAii tests and simply switching the browser type to Safari. Who knows, you might ...

  by ArtOfTest

• ArtOfTest forges a strategic alliance with Telerik, Inc.

  2/16/2009 11:02:00 AM

  Austin, TX – February 2, 2009 – ArtOfTest, Inc. the experts in software quality assurance technologies and automated software testing has forged a strategic alliance with Telerik, Inc., the leading vendor of developer tools and UI components for .NET. This alliance is a first of its kind and reinforces ArtOfTest’s position as a thought leader and innovator in the software testing tools market.

  Telerik’s WebUI Test Studio™ announced today is the first tangible result of this alliance. Telerik’s WebUI Test Studio™ is an automated testing solution featuring the innovative ArtOfTest Automation Design Canvas™ and WebAii™Automation Framework and is specifically tailored for Telerik RadControls™ for ASP.NET AJAX; thanks to the integrated control translators which leverage ArtOfTest’s patented extensibility architecture of Automation Design Canvas.

  “We are very excited about partnering with Telerik and offering a specialized version of Automation Design Canvas™ to their customers,” said Faris Sweis & Christopher Eyhorn, Co-Founders of ArtOfTest.  “This ...

  by ArtOfTest

• WebAii Automation Design Canvas 1.1 Preview now available

  2/1/2009 8:00:00 AM

  ArtOfTest is happy to announce the availability of Automation Design Canvas 1.1 - Preview! The most productive and innovative tool for testing Web 2.0 applications! The official release of 1.1 will be available at the end of this month.

  WebAii Automation Design Canvas 1.1 incorporates tons of customer feedback that we have gathered over the last 6 months from customers using our 1.0 version. The 1.1 version includes vast enhancements in the following areas:

  1.       Simplified Project Model:  Your tests are now self-contained and have no dependency on other files in the solution. No more .WebAiiElements file or WebAiiProj files. Makes deployment scenarios a breeze and allows for tests to be easily portable across machines, users and projects. Simply copy, paste and include in any test project.

   

  2.       Strongly-typed Project Elements:  As you record tests, strongly typed elements are being generated on the fly and are automatically accessible from ...

  by ArtOfTest

• WebAii 2.0 – Automate more than you expect!

  1/10/2009 12:50:00 PM

  In the last few months, we've been working really hard on refining our WebAii 2.0 feature set and polishing our first beta that we hope to release in Q1 of 2009. The goal for WebAii 2.0 is to enable a broader list of automation scenarios that were not possible in previous versions, address customer pain-points and expand our support to span the latest advancements in web development technologies. This has always been our promise to our customers and we believe WebAii 2.0 will delight our existing customers and will spur many to give WebAii a serious look. Let me outline some of our major features that we hope to preview in WebAii 2.0 beta:

  1. Safari/Chrome support: Yes, I have said it. WebAii 2.0 will support Safari (on Windows) and Google Chrome browsers. Our Beta support most probably will only contain the Safari support but future updates will incorporate Chrome support ...

  by ArtOfTest