I'm using browser automation for testing web sites but I need to verify HTTP requests from the browser (i.e., images, external scripts, XmlHttpRequest objects). Is there a way to programmatically instantiate a proxy for the browser to use in order to see what its sending? I'm already using Fiddler to watch the traffic but I want somethi...
I'm using browser automation for testing web sites but I need to verify HTTP requests from the browser (i.e., images, external scripts, XmlHttpRequest objects). Is there a way to programmatically instantiate a proxy or packet sniffer for the browser to use in order to see what its sending? I'm already using Fiddler to watch the traffic ...
Following Jonathan Holland's suggestion in his comment for my previous question: Is there any way in .NET to programmatically listen to HTTP traffic? I've made a separate (but not exactly a duplicate) question for what I really want to know: How do I automate a web proxy in .NET for unit tests (including set up and tear down) for spying...
Context: The environment is .Net 3.0 + WPF land, the DB is abstracted well out into the distance and the solution would need to work for Office 2000 and up I guess.. The need is to get a customized report for which the user would like to have certain application windows/boxes (e.g. a trend graph) displayed in Word. The window can be sh...
Start with the simplest task of capturing the URL in Firefox from a C# application. It appears using user32.dll Windows API functions will not work as is the approach for capturing the URL within IE. ...
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? ...
Is there such a thing as unit test generation? If so... ...does it work well? ...What are the auto generation solutions that are available for .NET? ...are there examples of using a technology like this? ...is this only good for certain types of applications, or could it be used to replace all manually written unit testing? ...
One of our next projects is supposed to be a MS Windows based game (written in C#, with a winform GUI and an integrated DirectX display-control) for a customer who wants to give away prizes to the best players. This project is meant to run for a couple of years, with championships, ladders, tournaments, player vs. player-action and so on...
I have written a ruby script which opens up dlink admin page in firefox and does a ADSL connection or disconnection. I could run this script in the terminal without any problem. But if I put it as cron job, it doesn't fire up firefox. This is the entry I have in crontab # connect to dataone 55 17 * * * ruby /home/raguanu/Dropbox/netti...
Hello everyone, I have three related questions. I want to create a word file with a name from C++. I want to be able to sent the printing command to this file, so that the file is being printed without the user having to open the document and do it manually and I want to be able to open the document. Opening the document should just op...
Has anyone had any recent requirements for programming automated DOS Batch style tasks on a Windows box? I've got some automation to do and I'd rather not sit and write a pile of .BAT files in Notepad if there is a better way of automating these tasks: mainly moving of files under certain date and time conditions, as well as triggering ...
I'm having a problem with some mail merge code that is supposed to produce letters within our application. I'm aware that this code is a bit rough at the moment, but we're in the "Get something working" phase before we tidy it up. Now the way this is supposed to work, and the way it works when we do it manually, is we have a file (the f...
I have a number of stored procs which I would like to all run simultaneously on the server. Ideally all on the server without reliance on connections to an external client. What options are there to launch all these and have them run simultaneously (I don't even need to wait until all the processes are done to do additional work)? I h...
We have several hundred javascript files in our app that are currently being served uncompressed. One piece of our solution to gain a little more client performance is to minify our javascript files. I've created an automated solution to do this on the build, however, when these new files are deployed, the files' timestamp that determine...
My division has been tasked with recording the morning presentation audio for future use, using the built-in Windows Sound Recorder. Because of human nature, we don't always remember to start it on time. Windows doesn't have a built-in equivalent to the Unix cron function. Besides installing a new software program (which will take time...
I've become lazy in my old age. For my C# work I've become quite reliant on Roland Weigelt's excellent GhostDoc plugin for Visual Studio. Is anyone aware of a similar plugin for Java work in IntelliJ IDEA? ...
I was wondering is there is a fool-proof way to run a program on windows such that I'm guaranteed that no interactive dialogs of any kind are displayed. I've tried the registry ErrorMode hack, calling _CrtSetReportMode(), etc., but they all have holes in them or require you to modify the program. I need a way to run an arbitrary progra...
It's the first great virtue of programmers. All of us have, at one time or another automated a task with a bit of throw-away code. Sometimes it takes a couple seconds tapping out a one-liner, sometimes we spend an exorbitant amount of time automating away a two-second task and then never use it again. What tiny hack have you found usefu...
PowerShell v1.0 is obviously a console based administrative shell. It doesn't really require a GUI interface. If one is required, like the Exchange 2007 management GUI, it is built on top of PowerShell. You can create your own GUI using Windows Forms in a PowerShell script. My question is, "What sort of PowerShell scripts or management t...
Code lines per file, methods per class, cyclomatic complexity and so on. Developers resist and workaround most if not all of them! There is a good Joel article on it (no time to find it now). What code metric(s) you recommend for use to automatically identify "crappy code"? What can convince most (you can't convince all of us to some c...