Some tips on Telerik Test Studio.

1. Be careful when you pause the recorder and open links from any applications. i.e. when Recorder is in the paused mode in browser, and if you open new link say from outlook, then in your test you will see 'Connect to popup(<URL>)' step recorded. 

2. Not suggested to rename .tstest files when you use coded steps. Because coded step method name will be created from Test Studio file name. (i.e. say file name is 'Test' then the coded step method will be Test_CodedStep1()). So when you rename tstest file, coded step method name will not be automatically renamed. You have to do it manually.

                

3. Ensure to close the browser that holds recorder when visual studio crashes unexpectedly. Otherwise when you reopen the test and try to run the test in already opened browser your visual studio will crash again . In worst scenario even you need to restart the machine.

4. Pay attention while renaming or deleting elements from Element Explorer in case if you have written some operations using elements in coded steps. Because context menu options in Element Explorer works contrary on the elements used in Coded Step.

Examples :

a. When you rename an element in Element Explorer, it will not automatically rename the same element used in coded step.

b. Used by option will be disabled even though the element is used in coded step.

c. Delete option will be enabled even though the element is used in coded step. So be careful when deleting the elements in Element Explorer.

5. If you are not able to open the .tstest extension files in Visual Studio.

If you face such scenario, right click on the Test file in Solution Explorer as shown in the screen shot and then choose 'Exclude From Project'. Then restart visual studio. Right click on the Test file again in Solution Explorer, and then 'Include in Project'.

                

6. Ensure that you have launched Visual Studio as Administrator, otherwise you will not be able to launch browser from Visual Studio.

                

7. From Telerik Test Studio, when you open the Test Studio project that is developed in Visual Studio, and if you open any test studio file, immediately file gets dirty without any modifications.

8. Good to maintain project name as Namespace. You will face challenges when you try to open the project in Test Studio that is developed in Visual Studio using Telerik Studio plugin. create problem when

For Example you have project name as 'Demo' and you have created Login.tstest file in 'nightly\tests' folder then your tstest file namespace will be "Demo.nightly.tests" . So if you open this project in Telerik Test Studio and open Login.tstest file, immediately that file will be shown in dirty mode(even though you do not do any modifications) and when you save it from Test Studio then the namespace will be modified to Demo.

9. Avoid using special characters (ex: &) in names for .tstest files

10. More will be in a new blog. J