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20 Dec 2011

Iron Speed Designer v9.0.1 Released

Iron Speed have just released a maintenance version Iron Speed Designer, version 9.0.1, which fixes the bugs reported in version 9.0.0. If you are currently using ISD v9.0.0, Iron Speed recommend you uninstall it before upgrading to ISD v9.0.1. The Release Notes page contains details about the ...

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Posted by: Dean Pepper

Tags: new release , Code Generation , Bugs , Iron Speed
09 Dec 2011
Iron Speed Designer v9.0 Released
Iron Speed have just released the latest version of their flagship product – Iron Speed Designer. This is a major release with several new and interesting features, including;
- Mobile Support – You now easily create mobile-friendly ASPX pages with the inclusion of new page styles and controls....
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Posted by: Dean Pepper

Tags: new release , Iron Speed
27 Oct 2011

IronSpeed group by reports page

One of the common uses for bespoke web applications like those created with Iron Speed Designer is reporting. Web based applications built using the dot net framework are great for database reports as they make it easy to do web based reporting. Building web applications with Iron ...

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Posted by: Ben Demes

Tags: bespoke web applications , ironspeed , Iron Speed V8 , Reports , application , Iron Speed
18 Oct 2011

Bug Magnet (iOS 5 Edition)

I warned you all this might become a regular feature and here it is, following on from the popular 'Bug Magnet - TweetDeck Edition' (which got a good 30+ retweets thanks to a couple of bots :D) here is the new iOS 5 edition. Last ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: iOS , Newsstand , Testing , Bug Magnet
03 Oct 2011

Custom exports with Iron Speed Designer

Introduction
Iron Speed Designer has export functions built in. These allow you to export out of the box in a variety of formats including PDF, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and CSV. The system is built around exporting data from a specific database table which contains the data ...

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Posted by: Ben Demes

Tags: web applications , Iron Speed
30 Sep 2011

Bug Magnet (TweetDeck Edition)

A couple of months ago now I wrote a blog post on the subject of ‘Being a tester outside of the workplace’ and I suppose you could consider this a continuation of that post. All the examples I gave before were things that I found ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: Testing , TweetDeck , SQA , Bug Magnet
29 Sep 2011

Filtering by Null Columns with Iron Speed Designer

Introduction
Iron Speed Designer makes it easy to filter data displayed on show and edit table pages by foreign key columns, but it does not allow filtering when the columns do not contain any data. This article will demonstrate how to easily overcome this by adding a ...

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Posted by: Dean Pepper

Tags: Iron Speed V8 , Visual Studio 2010 , Code Generation , ASP.NET , Iron Speed
22 Sep 2011
Branching and Gated Check Ins (A Testers Perspective)
A little background might be required here. The way our development process is set up we have multiple branches of our apps in TFS:
1. The ‘Trunk’ branch – which the developers are constantly updating.
2. The ‘UAT’ branch – where the developers merge their changes down to when ...
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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: Testing , QA , Gated Check In , TFS
29 Aug 2011

Context that gives bugs severity

When it comes to most bugs its fairly easy to gauge exactly how severe they might be. For example an E-Commerce website that does not allow you to add any items to your shopping basket is clearly a critical bug where as a spelling mistake ranks much ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: 11plus , Testing , QA , Bugs
25 Aug 2011

Taking Positives From Test Metrics

It has been long established that gauging a Testers work based on the amount of bugs they discover/report is about as useless as gauging a Developers work based on the amount of lines of code they write. One tester might discover 20 non-critical bugs and another might ...

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Posted by: Craig Pilgrim

Tags: Testing , QA , Metrics

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