Hi All, During web development work, I need to be able to quickly switch various config settings in Firefox. In particular I need to be able to: 1) Switch off cookies 2) Switch off javascript 3) Switch my user agent (I have the user-agent switcher add-on installed) and then back again. Instead of doing this manually, it would be grea...
Hi, does anyone know of a Python class similar to Java Robot? Specifically I would like the perform a screen grab in Ubuntu, and eventually track mouse clicks and keyboard presses (although that's a slightly different question) Thanks, Stuart ...
About three years ago I switched from using commercial testing tools to using an open source testing framework (WatiN), and a UI automation framework I developed myself. Since doing this I think life is much better using these libraries and Visual Studio, than expensive dedicated testing tools with either their own languages, or VBA. A...
We are extensively using webaii as our functional automation tool with great success, but we are now facing problems automating extjs grid types using webaii. Could anyone who has overcome this issue in webaii or watin or watir provide inputs on this. ...
http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?p=1221565#post1221565 This thread shows some discussion about what I'm trying to do. I can't use Powershell for this purpose and I'm not an advanced student, so my level is beginning intermediate. Understand concepts, but need lots of help and basic ideas :-) Can i use a simple control in c# t...
I use the automation interface of Internet Explorer from Powershell to open a web page in a supported format. I want to save this page back to disk in one of the formats supported by IE. Opening the page is easy: $ie = New-Object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.Application" $ie.Navigate("C:\MyFile.mht") How do I save it back in another f...
Hey guys! I am wondering if there is anyone out there that can help me with this... I have an Access db that I use to track metrics where I work and "number crunch" for data that I use to build ppt presentations. I have to usually do about 40 ppt's per month, and they are 98% charts. Right now, I run queries one at a time (using SQL st...
I'm using the EnvDTE COM objects to automate Visual Studio. I'm still looking through the documentation, however, I figured I'd drop the question here to see if someone already knows how to do this. So, the problem is that when I get the DTE object and look at what Solution is open, I need to open another instance of Visual Studio if th...
In the past I've used Doxygen for C and C++, but now I've been thrown on Fortran project and I would like to get a quick all encompassing look at the architecture. In the past I've found reverse engineering tools to be useful where no documentation of the architecture exists. So, is there a tool out there that will reverse engineer Fo...
I have a .NET 2.0 COM object that's used by VBA in Excel. It works fine on my dev machine, but when trying to use it on a clean VM workstation I get this error: Automation error. The system cannot find the file specified. The dll is registered with "regasm /tlb /codebase mycom.dll" and not put in the GAC. I don't have administration r...
Hi, i am trying to write a thesis about Software Test Automation. I plan to compare the two Approaches of Recording and Programming of Test Scripts, and to discuss about several Automation Frameworks, for example Abbot, Selenium, Yemmy, FEST, etc ... Also in my Thesis will be a short overview about Softwaretesting Techniques and maybe a...
We've got a C++ Project that currently uses Make on Linux to build. I'd like to automate it similar to a Java Project under CruiseControl. 1) Is there a project similar to CruiseControl for C++ projects? OR 2) Is there a good "how-to" on using CruiseControl for C++ Projects? ...
I am on the verge of remaking an application for e-learning. But now I want to take this new version to a new level. So this the scenario: a user opens up my app. He/she then chooses to be trained in one of the most common MS Office applications (Word,Excel,Outlook, etc). My app will give the user instructions on what to do: create a n...
Hi i'm trying to use jQuery/javascript to make my life easier. I'm trying to use it to auto fill in the various html elements with the name of the place and country which comes from the file name of the image. Below is a sample of some of the html i have to work with: <div class="boxgrid"> <a href="gallery/angkor - cambodia.jpg" title="...
I have VBScript code which launches QuickTest Professional, executes a series of QTP tests, and emails the results. This works well, but I would prefer to use a language with better tools support (a good IDE for example). I am currently calling .Net libraries from the launch script, so I was wondering if it was possible to use a language...
I'm trying to create a piece of software that automate the PC by capturing the screenshot, then OCR (Optical Character Recognition) it looking for a particular button to click (for example). I've got the mouse and keyboard control part, but now, I needed an OCR to process the screenshot. What I discovered is that Tesseract OCR does not s...
I run VMWare Workstation 6.5 on WinXP. How can I script a way to automatically clone my VM images? I've read about the "vmware-cmd" tool but believe that is only available with VMWare ESX, not Workstation. ...
I've just started at a new communications company, and we're looking at a workflow / intranet system to manage jobs and processes. Basically, we receive data files from clients which we then process through our systems. Receive data file (FTP, Email, etc) Process data file (either generic script with data mapping to the file, or bespo...
Hi, Simple question. I see that Jean-Paul Mikkers async poweshell example over at code project is tearing down the pipeline and recreating it after every script execution. Does anybody know if there is a particular reason why it's done this way, or does the pipeline need to be recreated every time. I've tried execution on it multiple...
import mechanize url = 'http://steamcommunity.com' br=mechanize.Browser(factory=mechanize.RobustFactory()) br.open(url) print br.request print br.form for each in br.forms(): print each print The above code results in: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./mech_test.py", line 12, in <module> for each in br.forms(...