In the first ever ASP.NET QA Podcast Federico and Matthew discuss the motivation behind the community involvement from the QA team and the release of the QA team’s Lightweight Test Automation Framework for ASP.NET and what it is. Introductions to the podcasters, Federico and Matthew. What is it that the ASP.NET QA team does. The recent release of ASP.NET MVC RC2. The recent release of the source code to the Lightweight Test Automation Framework. The... more
The Asp.NET QA team has been working to make what we do and our processes more visible to our customers. Two major things we have done to increase this are, releasing the Lightweight Test Automation Framework binaries with a sample to Codeplex.com and starting our ASP.NET QA Blog. Well, over the last week we reached another milestone by releasing the source to the Lightweight Test Automation Framework on Codeplex.com. This is the first time we... more
Introduction One of the new features being added to version 4.0 of ASP.NET is the ability to control the client side IDs that are generated by the framework. Previously the framework would modify the client side IDs to uniquely identify each control. This some times left you with the ID you defined in markup or sometimes left you with something that looks like this, “ctl00_MasterPageBody_ctl01_Textbox1.” more
In some instances it might be best if your tests did not run in the same application as the website being tested. This is where the “IApplicationPathFinder” interface comes into play. If you implement this interface you will see that it only has one method “GetApplicationpath.” What this does is allow you to specify a prefix of sorts for the navigate method. When you call navigate on a HTMLPage it uses a ApplicationPathFinder to get... more
Well it’s official I will be going to Tech·Ed EMEA this year. This will be my first time in Spain so it should be fun. I will be working the ASP.NET booth for the developer portion of the conference, November 10th through the 14th. If your going to be there look me up at the booth. If there is anything you want to find out while I’m in Spain or at Tech·Ed let me know. ... more