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Tool/framework for automated web app testing in Google Chrome browser?

Is an opensource/commercial tool/framework, available for automated web app testing in Google Chrome browser on Windows XP / Vista? ( An alpha/beta Tool is also OK) Thanks ...

Generate docs in automated build

Is there any way to generate project docs during automated builds? I'd like to have a single set of source files (HTML?) with the user manual, and from them generate: PDF document CHM help HTML version of the help The content would be basically the same in all three formats. Currently I'm using msbuild and CCNET, but I could chan...

Command line builds for VC 6?

I have been used to working with VS2005 and 2008 - using msbuild, etc, but I have inherited a set of projects that have to remain in vc6.0 for now. I don't like opening each project in the developer studio and building. I prefer to build form command line (I am automating the builds). Is this possible? I have tried the nmake utility,...

Which is better for web testing? Record-Play automation or coding?

I am working on a new project and I wanted to know which automation tool is the best to use. Should I record-play or code? ...

What is the single best open source automation tool for functional web testing

I wanted to check out a new open source tool for automated testing of a website. I prefer multi-browser support, even multi-platform. ...

iMacros is good but unreliable. Is there any alternative?

iMacros is a very nice tool which allows to authomatically fill HTML forms and extract content, includes cycles and many other features. The problem is that it is quite tricky to make it extracting content properly. For example, I have failed to extract all London-to-Tokio flight prices for all the dates between 1/10/08 to 1/12/08 to fin...

Capistrano for Java?

I'm a big fan of Capistrano but I need to develop an automated deployment script for a Java-only shop. I've looked at Ant and Maven and they don't seem to be well geared towards remote administration the way Capistrano is - they seem much more focused on simply building and packaging applications. Is there a better tool out there? ...

Continuous integration tools with "pipeline" support?

Our automated builds and tests are taking an increasing amount of resources, especially since we support many platforms and test in both debug and optimized. So, I'm looking for some tool support that would allow a more incremental "pipeline" approach so we could get feedback and results faster. Some ideal characteristics would include...

Is there a good service for checking website/server vulnerability

I have been asked to provide information on available techniques for assessing our current, and any future websites for security problems. the request is in the form of Do you know of any good free one that examines for security holes? I think our data security is probably worth a small amount of upfront spend so any non-free metho...

Test automation with postgresql connected application

Hello there, I want to automate tests on my web application, and it uses postgresql. Does anyone know how define a restore point on a postgresql database and restore to an earlier state? I heard something about point in time recovery, but i dont if this is what i need. Thanks in advance ...

Automate Photoshop to insert text from file

I have a multilanguage website and need automate the process of updating textlayers in psd-files from a csv-source. I know that there might be glitches in the psp because of changed widths, but anyway it would help a lot to have the text inside the documents. What are my options? EDIT: Murmelschlurmel has a working solution. Here is ...

Tips on a tool to measure code quality?

I'm looking for a tool that can provide code quality metrics. For instance it could report very long functions (spaghetti code) very complex classes (which could contain do-it-all code) ... While we're on the (subjective:-) subject of code quality, what other code metrics would you suggest? I'm targetting C#/.NET code, but I'm sure...

What are the good static code analysis plugins?

Are there any automated code review tools for Java? Especially plugins for Eclipse? The tool I expect is an automated code review plugin or tool that can automatically detect the problems in Code. ( Microsoft does this using OACR ).Plugins like Jupiter won't help because they are just peer review tools for eclipse. ...

VS Team Tester failed to run dynamic web test

I have a Testing project that contains a csv file which a webtest uses to run against one of our projects. For some reason, even though it is referenced correctly I receive the following error: Could not run Web test 'SubmitBadData' on agent 'BLDSERVER': Could not access table 'BadData#csv' in data source 'BadData' of test '942b62a8-c1...

Why is it not possible to inherit tests methods from other assemblies

WHy is it not possible to inheritance tests from other assemblies to run: namespace TestProject.Base { [TestClass] public abstract class TestBaseClass { [TestMethod] public void BaseTest() { Assert.IsTrue(false); } } } Test Runner namespace TestProject.UnitTest { [...

Automated FTP

I need to set up some sort of infrastructure to automatically FTP some files from one remote server to another. The FTP transaction will occur on a scheduled basis. Both these server are windows boxes and the location of the files that need to be FTP'ed will depend on the current date (the folder they sit in will be named the current day...

What are the best-practices for automated testing of a WCF that returns a datatable

I am trying to automated the testing of a reporting website. I need to verify that the content of a datagridview is as expected for the reports. The datagridview will display column names and datarow results returned from an SQL database. I am thinking that the meat of the application which is stable is behind a WCF facade, so I should ...

How to automate svn check-in in cruisecontrol ?

I have cc.net configured to automatically checkout build,unit test and version a given branch on svn.. but how do i automate check-in the source back into an svn tag together with the versioning information (assemblyinfo.cs,corresponding version info on the sourcecode) ? ...

Software testing

Hey In my workplace we use scenario based testing. However whenever somethign is fixed or a new patch is added new scenarios are added as a result the list keeps getting longer and longer and takes 3 days plus to test the application. Is there a way to do proper testing without taking a long long time? What do you use? Thanks ...

How does Pricegrabber find and link to all the products?

I'm building a site where vendors will link their products to our product pages (for affiliate sales) and was wondering what algorithms people use to automate/facilitate this process? Right now they would have to manually enter the link for each product they own which is quite tedious. I noticed that Pricegrabber finds any product you ...