Entries for 'George Alatrash'

Recently DNN Platform 9.2.0 released. As part of this release several security items were resolved. This blog details the issues and updates included in the latest release. Also, several community members made contributions to this release and they are recognized in this blog.

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After the CodePlex site went into archive mode, DNN wanted to make older releases of its open source CMS artifacts available to everyone for easier access. These older releases were uploaded to GitHub and are now accessible by everyone! Continue Reading »

This Security Analyzer module helps the users detect some security issues in their sites so they can work on tightening their site's security. One of these checks is done against the permissions given to the SQL server user specified in the connection string. Many people saw some warning next to the SQL server check. In this article I will explain how to fix this issue.

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Sometimes DNN site super users could notice some performance issues in their sites. For example, the some or many pages take a very long time to load (2 to 3 minutes or more). In some cases where the site is operating in a web-farm, the slow page loading is more noticeably visible. There are a few reasons for these symptoms and I will explain how to diagnose and fix these issues in this article.

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This is the third article to guide those who would like to contribute to DNN Platform on how to write tests. In this article, I will expand on the previous articles (Part 1 and Part 2) and show you how to start adding new test features. I will base the tests on a real code that was contributed by some community members.

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This is the second article to guide those who would like to contribute to DNN Platform on how to write tests. In this article, I will walk you through writing a set of positive and negative unit tests for validating some code change in the Platform source code.

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This is an introductory article to guide those who would like to contribute to DNN Platform on how to write tests. In this article, I will explain the structure of the tests in the DNN Platform solution and how to run some/all of the existing tests.

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In the first two articles, I explained the basics of ATFS and how to use it to run all existing or specific UI tests. In this article, I’ll show you how to write your own UI tests.

Now let's get to the real work of writing our own tests. Let's start with a simple test to check whether a specific text is displayed in at the home page or not. We will to add the test under P1 Community area (folder).

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This is the second article in a series of articles on how to use the F# automation Framework to write UI tests and WEB API tests.

In the previous article I introduced the ATFS and how to use for testing your own site. In this one, I’ll explain the various configurations elements in the YAML configuration file that controls the written tests. Also, I will walk you through running individual test contexts.

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This is the first article is a series of articles on how to use the F# automation Framework to write UI tests and WEB API tests. This first blog will introduce the framework and how to run it to test your Platform site.

In the previous years DNN has developed a testing framework for automating DNN Platform application testing. The framework uses F# language (which is one of the .NET languages) and utilizes a few other open source libraries for this; of these: Canopy (http://lefthandedgoat.github.io/canopy/) and Selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/).

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