automation

Free Tool(s) / Tips to assist me in filling out forms on Win7?

I am doing some web development on some long forms. There are many fields for me to fill out to get through the form. Instead of typing out the same things every time (contact information, address, business information) I'm hoping there is some tool out there / combination of tools that will assist me in filling this out. Requirem...

ASP.NET URL Re-writing; Is this possible?

My app is currently written to accept vendor and product information like this. http://www.mydomain.com/foo.aspx?v=1&p=100 could this be re-written like this? http://www.mydomain.com/1/100/foo Since the values in the original query string are database IDs, how would I express newly created IDs as segments of the "path" in the r...

Auto discover projects in continous integration Tools

We have a code base composed of many projects. Currently each time we add a project on SVN we must reconfigure CruiseControl to start build and test on such project. I'm looking for a tool (better if open source) able to scan the SVN repository and find new projects by itself. A project can be "a SVN folder containing trunk, tags, branc...

How to delete VB code from an Excel sheet using C#?

Does anyone know how to delete all VB code form an Excel workbook using C#? This code doesn’t work. It removes first (last one) VBComponent, but rises ArgumentException on second one. VBProject project = workbook.VBProject; int componentsCount = project.VBComponents.Count; for (int i = componentsCount; i >= 1; ...

Context menu disappears with Word automation

When I am editing a Word document in an OleContainer (inplace) and I switch to another Word document and then I switch back, I cannot use my rightmouse button anymore. The context menu will not show up. This happens on Word 2000, not on Word 2007 (I don't know about other versions). How can I get rid of this behaviour? How to reproduc...

Windows GUI Automation

Hello, I am planning to automate some of the functionality of the GUI developed in Microsoft Visual C#. I am new to Automation with GUI. Would be glad if you share your experience regarding GUI Automation and some of the tools available for the automation. I plan to develop some programms / scripts in order to realise some of the fun...

Automate Running J2EE Web Application

Hey Guys, I want to automate running of my J2EE Web application which has a few pages each with forms and a submit button going to the next form etc... How do I automate running of this application? Which Tools are good out there ? Thanks! ...

Is JBehave a good choice for Web Service Automated Testing?

Hi All, We have a requirement at my workplace to automate the webservice testing. We have been using QTP scripts to do so. We as a team, Kind of leaning towards Jbehave as a choice. Is JBehave a good choice for web service functional testing automation? We do use Soap UI to test manually. But we are planning to automate the functional...

linux script that monitors file changes within folders (like autospec does!)

I want to automatically kick off a build whenever a file changes. I've used autospec (RSpec) in Ruby and loved that. How can this be done in bash? ...

How can I use Java to read/draw/interact with another Java window/applet

I am interested in writing a Java program which does the following. Attach to a currently running Swing window or applet, running in another JVM Alternatively, load a Java application so as to be able to do the above Read colors from the window Send mouse and keyboard events to the window I am hoping to make some sort of testing an...

Retrieve DTE2 ProjectItems

How can I retrieve a file (ProjectItem) from the _applicationObject given its full path, filename, or any other property obtainable via Item.Properties.Item("PropertyName")? Surely I don't have to loop through each item in the project until I find a match? ...

Problems with Continuous Integration (CI) in TFS during Build Automation?

Hi all, I am using TFS 2008 and Visual Studio and my boss has instructed me to implement Build Automation for Development and Release builds for a web Project. I am a total newbie in Build Automation. There are multiple developers working on the project on different machines using Visual Studio 2008 team System. Source is already be...

Publish git repository to remote http server

I work on a git repository where we build an php community but i need to show it somewhere so I am looking for a way to automatic upload my files to a remote http server when i push to the repository. Thanks /Victor ...

Manipulating Exchange 2003 shared contacts folder remotely

I've got a CRM web app running on a remote server that needs to synchronise it's contacts with the in-house Exchange 2003 shared contacts. Exchange 2003 doesn't appear to support web services. What would the typical approach to this problem be? My initial instinct would be to open port 80 on the Exchange server, run a simple webserver, ...

C++ Builder and Excel Automation, where to get started?

I want to dynamically create and populate an excel spreadsheet with C++ builder 2009, but I'm not entirely sure how to go about it. Searching the web, I've narrowed it down to using OLE Automation. Moreover, I'm looking for a document or programming tutorial that can get me started. Is there a simple programming tutorial that also thorou...

MS office word component runs only if the server is logged on with the same identity

Hi I have a webservices running on a server, which converts word document into pdf using word automation. I have given a windows network user account in the identity tab on the MS Office word component using the DCOMCNFG.exe. I am getting below mentioned error Exception Message: The message filter indicated that the application is bus...

Copying MYSQL backup to another server

I'm new to SSH. How to copy a .gz file from one server to another using SSH? I'm using cron to backup mysql databases and want to also automate the process of copying the .gz files a different web host. Any information on the limit of file size that can be copied would also be great. The backup file size range from 100 MB to few GB. ...

Automating Internet Explorer w/o ActiveX

I've been automating some tests against a web application using Python and COM. My scripts send clicks to the browser to emulate user behavior and verify the results. I'm trying to find out if moving out of Python to .NET would benefit me much. I'm quite fond of C# as a development language. I've tried some existing tools like WatiN ...

Can a Heroku app add/remove dynos or workers to/from itself?

Heroku allows you to add and remove dynos and workers on the fly and charges you per second that each is used. Is it possible to set up my app so that it can add/remove dynos and workers from itself depending on the load it's under? This paragraph on Heroku.com mentions an API, but I can't find out much more about it. ...

Automated fake mailbox

Hello, i'm about to start the development of a new automated-email application. The idea is that customers (or other external users) send emails to a mailbox and then an automated process will read them, extract their information and insert it into some database. It's a requirement that the emails have an standard format in order to be p...