automation

mercurial - I want to add some custom code to be run after commit

Hi - where could I place code to be run after every commit I make with mercurial? Specifically, I would like to maintain a file called latest inside the .hg folder in the root of my project - that file will hold the revision number and hash code for the most recent commit. On that same topic, how can I get those in python? # get mercu...

automation testing of pdf forms

is there any tool that can help in automation testing of PDF forms ? any help appreciated ...

What is the automation of project ? Please explain with an example

Can you please explain me what is automation of project? How it is related with testing? Please explain with an example. ...

Test automation of Aptana (Eclipse) GUI

Hi, I m looking for a tool able to automate tests for Aptana Studio's GUI. Google was not too helpful in this case. Thanks, Shakov ...

bubble unhandled exception to white automation from silverlight

Hi, I am using the white automation API to test a silverlight app, but when an unhandled exception occurs in silverlight I don't know of a way to report this back to the unit test or check in the white api to see if there was an exception. Anyone got a way to do this? ...

How to automate updating a trac wiki page?

I have a trac wiki page I'd like to update automatically on a regular basis (say, once an hour) with data fetched by a script. I can get the script to generate the wiki markup. How would you then upload that to the trac page? I want to replace the whole body of the page. I would prefer a solution in python, as the rest of the stack (t...

How to access Microsoft Word existing instance using late binding

Hi, i am developing some code in c# where i will be interacting with Microsoft Word. I want to be able to have the option of re-using an existing instance or as an alternative creating a new instance. Keeping in mind i want to do all of this using LATE BINDING... it is safe to say i have figured out how to get things working when creati...

Tools for automating SilverLight application

I want to automate the application develoepd in silverlight. Can you let me know whether there are any open source tools are available which can be used for automating SilverLight app. Thanks. ...

Vb6 UI Automated Testing tools?

What vb6 UI automated testing tools are available? Additionally, would you rate the tools listed from 1-10, where ten means that its the most amazing tool ever and one means that its almost not worth listing. ...

Are there any free alternatives to the Ranorex library (Python, Windows)?

I am interested in the Python one. I wish to automate some GUI under Windows. What is the best open source library for that with no strings attached? Thanks. ...

Is there a way to automate Google Web Optimizer approvals?

Google Web Optimizer uses URLs for its A/B testing experiments. In addition to the production URL, we also have several pre-production environments. Releases of software are pushed out. We're only running our first experiment now, but we've set up five experiments in GWO -- one for each environment (and thus URL). It's a bit of a pain ...

Supress "save changes" when creating a document via Excel automation.

In a line of business application I'm working on, we have the ability to export to Excel, which we achieve through Excel automation. We have two methods of exporting - one which saves the files and then goes to attach them to an Outlook email (again through automation); the other is effectively a 'preview' which performs the export to Ex...

Python win32com: Internet Explorer COM object ? (used to work?)

I have this very simple program: from win32com import client ie=client.Dispatch("InternetExplorer.Application") This used to work (I think I broke something when I re-used 'makepy.py' to try and add in constants for IE). It still works on another machine where I haven't been so slap-dash with 'makepy.py'. Here's what I get in an int...

Will shell scripts called from python persist after the python script ends?

As part of an automated test, I have a python script that needs to call two shell scripts that start two different servers that need to interact after the calling script ends. (It's actually a jython script, but I'm not sure that matters at this point.) What can I do to ensure that the servers stay up after the python script ends? At th...

How To Automatically Start iMacros Javascript Upon Browser Loading

This question is specific to the iMacros suite in particular. What is the best way to go about automatically starting a javascript file that controls my macros inside firefox? Basically, I have an imacros.js file that calls a series of imacros.iim files. How can I run this javascript automatically? ...

Python Fabric: How to answer to keyboard input ?

I would like to automate the response for some question prompted by some programs, like mysql prompting for a password, or apt asking for a 'yes' or ... when I want to rebuild my haystack index with a ./manage.py rebuild_index. For MySQL, I can use the --password= switch, and I'm sure that apt has a 'quiet' like option. But how can I p...

Anyone benchmarked virtual machine performance for build servers?

We have been trying to use virtual machines for build servers. Our build servers are all running WinXP32 and we are hosting them on VMWare Server 2.0 running on Ubuntu 9.10. We build a mix of C, C++, python packages, and other various deployment tasks (installers, 7z files, archives, etc). The management using VMWare hosted build serv...

Automatically replace dev database with live database?

I have live and dev versions of an ASP.NET website, with corresponding live and dev versions of the SQL Server back end. Each is on its own server (so 4 total) on the same local network. Every so often, we've been manually replacing the dev DB with the live DB, using backup & restore, so that the dev DB is a reasonably recent snapshot ...

Hudson to automatically detect a job needs build (SVN HEAD diff)

We are using Hudson for continuous integration of many projects. I would like to know if there is an existing plugin or script that would automatically detect if a job needs to be built - but not actually build it, just send an email, add the job to a queue somewhere, or "flag" the build if it detects if the SVN repository modules have b...

Ruby on rails templates for apps (rails 2.3 version)

Is there any site or repository to download and/or share templates for Rails applications? Example: # template.rb run "rm public/index.html" generate(:scaffold, "person name:string") route "map.root :controller => 'people'" rake("db:migrate") git :init git :add => "." git :commit => "-a -m 'Initial commit'" And do that: rails myapp...