automation

Looking for a tool to auto-enlarge all of our dialog resources

So far my Gooling and searching around here haven't come up with anything of the sort. There are translation tools aplenty - we even have a license for Alchemy Catalyst 5.0. But what I want is a tool that will take an .rc file and grow all of the dialogs by a certain percentage - say 20%. That way the English will be a little more spa...

Open source tool to detect Qt controls - Automation

Is there any open source tool for detecting Qt controls? It can be used as part of automation the testing ...

How to automate a keystroke using Win32 and Ruby?

I wonder if anyone knows how to use Win32 to automate a keystroke using Ruby? ...

Automating Outlook and Word to create email message

I'm trying to create a Word email message that will be used as the body for an Outlook message. I've been looking at sample code from Microsoft here but this code falls over when trying to create the new word document at the wordApp.Documents.Add line: Word.Application wordApp = new Word.Application(); object template = Syste...

Any good tool(s) for Automating remote logging.

I need to write a script, that can automate few things: a) telnet to a router b) issue configuration commands. c) check for status(success/error) What language/framework should I use? I only know about "expect". What are other better alternatives? ...

IIS - Make Directory an Application from the CLI for .NET application

I have IIS installed on a server configured with asp.net 2.0 and a directory located at C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/application. I also got an automated process for zipping up an asp.net web application, scp'ing that .zip file to said server, blowing away the previous contents of the application/ directory, and unzipping the .zip file there, and...

How can I automate an existing instance of Internet Explorer using Perl?

I am struggling to get control of an IE preview control which is 'Internet Explorer_Server' class on an external windows application with perl. Internet Explorer_Server is the class name of the window, I've found it with Spy++. and here’s my assertion code of it $className = Win32::GUI::GetClassName($window); if ($className eq "Inter...

Using Command Line Switches to Save a PDF as Text - Can it be done?

I need to use command line switches to execute the 'Save as Text' command. Ideally, I want to: use a command line switch to open a PDF use a command line switch to convert the PDF to a text file by mimicking the 'Save as Text' command. use a command line to close the PDF. Is this possible? If so, then does anyone know how to do this?...

Where are Adobe InDesign (OLE) COM Automation interfaces documented?

I am developing a .NET application (using C#) that needs to massage some Adobe InDesign files and output their content as PDFs. I could use InDesign's scripting but the COM interfaces seem a bit cleaner for this non-interactive work. Unfortunately, I have to guess at the semantics of InDesign's COM interfaces because I don't know where ...

Automating svn update

I'm frequently sshing into a server, switching to a specific directory and running svn-update I'm thinking that there's probably a very easy way to automate this, so I can simple specific a subdirectory when I run the script and it'll login via SSH, cd to the right directory and run svn-update. Is this a job for capistrano or could a s...

Program Automation in Windows using VB.NET 2008

Hi, I am trying to automate a program using Visual BAsic.NET. The idea is to invoke my "Program" at the click of a button, pass inputs to the program and save the results it would generate. For now I can invoke my program using VisualBasic.NET(comands: shell, appactivate), I can pass in data to the program( My.Computer.Keyboard.SendKey...

eclipse: Automatic branch compilation checking

I have a task to check compilation of code from one of our branches, lets call it "stable". Our team mainly working in "HEAD" branch and sometimes making some merges to "stable" branch. I've made a local copy of our main workspace and named it "main-workspace-stable" and replaced all of the code by code from "stable" branch. Now at the e...

What's the best way to automate file renaming?

Here's the situation: I have an excel file which contains the following information: Document location: (C:/folder/sub/file.doc) and Document New Name: (RENAMED-FILE.doc) What would be the be the best way to automate this as I have about a thousand files to rename? *Note: Document location can be in different locations (files will not...

Automated Testing of Component Handlers in 3rd Party Javascript

I'm currently using WebAii and WatiN to try and automate some tests of a 3rd party web product, to see if some data migration will break the web portal. The problem I'm having is that they have used Component Handlers in their Javascript, and so invoking a Click on a web-part (SPAN, DIV etc) is not triggering the generic handler. /...

Android – multiple custom versions of the same app

Whats the best way to deploy several customized versions of a Android application? Currently I have a script to exchange the resource folder for getting a customized version of my app. It works great, but all custom versions still have the same package name in the AndroidManifest.xml. Therefore it is not possible to install two customi...

Processing email with a server application

I'm afraid this is a very generic question, but unfortunately my question is exactly how to get down to the 'specifics' on this particular issue. Let me be more specific: I want to create an "email listener" application - something that would run in my server, so that users could send email to a particular address and this application w...

test automation tool.

I am looking for a test automation tool that supports eclipse based plug ins for all web browsers and it sholud be cross platform. pls send me suggestions ...

Google Docs publishing 'server'

You might be familiar with Google Docs' (and presumably also the other 'office' apps) ability to communicate with a blog server to publish a post directly from its interface. (It's located in Share > Publish as a web page). I'm interested in knowing the standard for the data transmission that this system uses. Of course, I can always re...

Setting correct printer in MS Word through automation

I have the following automation code: lPrintSetup := fWordObject.Application.Dialogs.Item(wdDialogFilePrintSetup); lPrintSetup.Printer := 'MyPrinter'; lPrintSetup.DoNotSetAsSysDefault := True; lPrintSetup.Execute; lPrintSetup := Null; The Printer property is giving me some problems, sometimes Execute crashes with an EOleException (0x8...

Automated Flex testing without static AutomationIDs

Hey all- Has anyone had any luck testing a Flex app without static Automation IDs attached to components? All of the elements in the apps are generated ..... We've investigated FlexMonkey but it appears to be incompatible with any app that utilizes the ExternalInterface. RIATest's scripting language leaves much to be desired... Than...