Hello, I am doing some COM Interop work with Excel and other Office Automation Software. A Co-Worker has mentioned to me that I need to wait for these Automation Servers to become ready after issuing a command to them. I, however, cannot see the purpose of this as don't all calls block until the automation server completes the given ...
I am using WatiN (2.0.10.928) with C# and Visual Studio 2008 to test a SSL secured website that requires a certificate. When you navigate to the homepage a "Choose a digital certificate" dialog is displayed and requires that you select a valid certificate and click the 'OK' button. I'm looking for a way to automate the certificate selec...
I have a server with which I cannot use pre-shared keys and ssh - all authentication is via interactive prompts. That server also has cron and at disabled for non-root users. I would like to be able to cron a job on my local machine that will run a script against the remote server to do periodic maintenance/reporting. I've dallied wit...
There seems to be an issue simulating the backspace key with java.awt.Robot. This thread seems to confirm this but it does not propose a solution. This works: Robot rob = new Robot(); rob.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_A); rob.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_A); This doesn't: Robot rob = new Robot(); rob.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_BACK_SPACE); rob.keyRelea...
Here's what I'm trying to achieve. I would like to write a script that will navigate to a website that requires me to be authenticated as myself, say Facebook, Live Spaces, Twitter or any other, and then have that script search for certain information on one of the pages of the website. I've done something similar in the past with the W...
I have begun using Eclipse code templates and am loving 'em! But for existing code they are a bit hard to use. This is easiest with an example. I have a pre-existing bit of code and I want to wrap it in a try-catch block. Currently I create the try-catch block from the template and then cut-paste the code I want inside the try block. W...
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Hi - I'm a tester, with some Java and plenty of bash coding experience. My team is building an automated functional test harness using JUnit 4 and ant. Testers write automated tests in Java and use JavaDoc to document these tests. We're using ant's JunitReport task to generate our test result reports. This works superbly for reporting...
Dear all, I am tasked with a project that requires me to retreieve a specific file from a folder where I can only get an X and Y on the screen. While in XP I managed to use the fact that windows explorer is in essence a list view, and used the WM_HITTEST message to obtain information about the file, in Windows 7, this is not the case. ...
Ok, it's little convoluted. I am trying to write a script to automate telneting to a machine, execute few commands, look at the output in the telnet window, based on the output, send few more commands. Thanks for any help ...
In the past, I used the code below to fill out a form field using the webbrowser control in VB.Net. The page I am working with doesn't have name field for the inputbox, so my code doesn't work. How would I fill out the input box defined at the bottom of this post in bold? Dim iPage As HtmlDocument iPage = wb1.Document iPage.All.Item("ca...
I want to automate actions in firebug JavaScript console. ie. Is it possible to load a page from url in firefox then after the page is loaded run a js code in console? I have googled for solutions and found one:Running_Automated_Test_Suite with FBTest is there any other ways to do that? Which one is easier? Some ways w/ windows cmd-lin...
I am developing an Excel addin that has an udf and calls it as a worksheet function. It is a com addin where I am using the IDTExtensibility2 interface and set the class interface type as autodual and then shim it as in the link http://blogs.msdn.com/andreww/archive/2006/07/23/excel-interop-types-in-shimmed-automation-add-ins.aspx Thing...
I have a website where I have to click a submit button on a form. This gives me a link. I know the link is made up with the paramter that is passed through a hidden value. I was wondering if I could make a python script or something else that would go to the website and click some buttons returning the link that the submit button generat...
Is it good or bad practice auto-generating toString methods for some simple classes? I was thinking of generating something like bellow where it takes the variable names and produces a toString method that prints the name followed by its value. private String name; private int age; private double height; public String toString(){ r...
I'm looking to run some powershell scripts via automation. Something like: IList errors; Collection<PSObject> res = null; using (RunspaceInvoke rsi = new RunspaceInvoke()) { try { res = rsi.Invoke(commandline, null, out errors); } catch (Exception ex) { LastErrorMessage = ex.ToString(); Debug....
I have a script which reads data from a csv file. I need to store the data into a database which has already been created as $ python manage.py syncdb so, that automated data entry is possible in an easier manner, as available in the django shell. ...
I'm looking for a way to programatically control a browser on a Mac (i.e. not IE) using Python. The actions I need include following links, checking if elements exist in a page, and submitting forms. Which solution would you recommend? Thanks! ...
Short question: How do I automatically detect whether a CSV file has headers in the first row? Details: I've written a small CSV parsing engine that places the data into an object that I can access as (approximately) an in-memory database. The original code was written to parse third-party CSV with a predictable format, but I'd like t...