Hi. A quick question. Is there any method to control or automate any Windows application, using the command line. I've tried AutoIt. Any other methods? I'm targetting to control WinCE Test Kit (CETK) to perform the test without having to go to the GUI,or click the menu, connect etc, manually. Thanks in advance! ...
I have a problem and I hope you have the answer. Here it is: I start Firefox (Linux) via command line using a cron-job. When there is no update for the add-ons, it start up normally, then I can tell it what to do. However if there is an update for an add-on, then it ask whether to take that update or not. I don't have the ability to de...
Hi, I am building a reconciliation tool via VBA that automates queries from my oracle database and a worksheet. When I run the query I want the user to input what ITEM (in this case pipeline) to query (the worksheet has many items) and the end/start dates. I am having trouble figuring out the following: 1) It is querying - if the value ...
I have changed a column name in a table in my SQL Server 2005 database. I also have a rather large collection of stored procedures that may or may not be referencing that column. Is there a way to find what stored procedures are referencing that column without actually going through each stored procedure and search for it manually? Is...
Does anyone know of a way to script flash objects using WatiN? I need a way to send arbitrary keystrokes to a flash application. I'm able to login with code such as this: ie.TextField(Find.ById("email")).TypeText(username); ie.TextField(Find.ById("password")).TypeText(password); I'm looking for something like: ie.FlashObject(Find.By...
Hi - I'm trying to change text and images in a word document using c# and word automation. I've got it working fine for text where I do something like the snippet below, but I don't even know how to start for replacing the image. Any help is greatly appreciated! Oliver using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word; ... private static Applicat...
I would be grateful if someone could please show me an example of how to login to a phpBB forum remotely and perform a search. The language i am using is java however, i just need to know the steps involved. even some pointers on what to google to get the answers i need would be great i have googled everything i can think of. ...
Managing XML files in a Visual Studio project (2 instances) If I add an XML file to my VS project it at the root level of the project with the source files. But then if I want to test or build I need a copy down in the bin directory. Of course I always end up editing the one at the root level that is in VS and then I go to test and am u...
Is is possible to automate the installation of an OS using VMware or any other virtualization product? One of our products consists of a customized version of CentOS that installs the OS and our application on a server. It's much like any CentOS/RHEL installation where you choose a mode that corresponds to different kickstart options, ...
Every time I test my program, I have to go through a bunch of the same keystrokes and mouse clicks. I am looking for a tool to automate this like a Macro recorder. The tool needs to save the clicks and keystrokes one time. Then every time my program runs, I hit a keyboard shortcut and it does its work. I see a lot of such shareware tool...
I'm trying to add custom properties to a workbook I have created programatically. I have a method in place for getting and setting properties, but the problem is the workbook is returning null for the CustomDocumentProperties property. I cannot figure out how to initialize this property so that I can add and retrieve properties from th...
The Hudson CI Server has a configuration option called "Aggregate the archived artifacts". If I'm right, this option is used to share previously build artefact's across other builds/jobs. I have tried it, but it seems not working for me. How would the correct setup looks like? (PHAR packages are similar to JAR but for PHP) My current wo...
I have some VB that copies OLEobjects into powerpoint automatically for me. The purpose of this is that my database runs queries, and then forms turn them into charts. As it runs through the various queires/form on open/close events the charts are added to a powerpoint presentation. I also have parallel queries that show the resulting d...
Mac has applescript 'built in' and I've found its pretty nice to work with for automating stuff. What's the best windows equivalent? ...
I'd like to be able to run a script that parsed through the twitter page and compiled a list of tweets for a given time period - one week to be more exact. Ideally it should return the results as a html list that could then be posted in a blog. Like here: http://www.perezfox.com/2009/07/12/the-week-in-tweet-for-2009-07-12/ I'm sure the...
Hi, Can someone point out the major differences between Loadrunner and Performance center ? My little research shows that both can be used for load testing and performance monitoring. What additional features are provided by Performance center? Is VUGen a part of Performance center? Please share your thoughts. ...
I'm in the middle of an ASP.NET MVC project and recently installed the free trial of ReSharper 4.5. Immediately I realized the benefits, simply because of the refactoring it wanted me to do. Things like inverting if statements to reduce nesting, changing some of my if/else statements that were returning Views to ?/?? operators - drastic...
Hi, As part of test automation framework building, I need to record the activities done by the user in a video. Since i could not find a way to record a video directly in vb, i opted to capture a sequence of screen shots (print screens) and then convert it to a streaming video. Please suggest a way to do the same. thanks, pkrg ...
For testing our product's installer, I maintain a tree of virtual machine snapshots with different previous versions installed. It is a tedious task to do Windows Update, re-snapshot, delete parent snapshot on each VM. Is there an automated solution for keeping a group of VMs up-to-date? I use VirtualBox but have access to VMware Workst...
Hello everyone! I sure hope this won't be an already answered question or a stupid one. Recently I've been programming with several instruments. Trying to communicate between them in order to create a testing program. However I've encoutered some problems with one specific instrument when I'm trying to call functions that I've "masked"...