automation

Is there a automation framework for gtk# applications?

Is there a automation framework for gtk# applications like white or NUnitForms? ...

Send Text in Clipboard to Application like Notepad (C# or Powershell)

I want to be able to send the text on the clipboard, in Windows, to an application. For example, I'm working on a text file in notepad, and I want to copy a portion out into a new file..I want to copy it to the clipboard and then use a hotkey to launch an application or powershell script that sends that copied text to a new instance of ...

How to automate Lgeacy (mainframe, cobol, AS40,magic) applications?

we are running a huge automation progect for a major bank in Austria. We need to automate several legacy terminals/systems - namely mainframe, cobol, AS40,magic applications . what is the best tool to do so? did you manage to automate legacy apps with QTP? any other tools you can recommend? ...

Test Automation framework - Tools important?

I have been working on Test Automation from last few months and have been using the tool named "Testcomplete". But I have noticed that the tools do not matter a lot in the field of automation. Only thing you expect from an automation tool is the ability of the tool to spit out the recognition strings for the different controls used in th...

Create a batch to automate HTTPS GET requests

how can i create a batch that can send HTTPS requests ? byfar i used Fiddler Request Builder so i can send requests like: GET https://website.com/index.aspx?typeoflink=**[HERE-VARIABLE-FROM-FILE]**&min=1 HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Referer: https://website.com/index.aspx?chknumbertypeoflink&min=1 Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding...

Remotely programmatically manage IIS 6 and later

I have been trying to figure out how I would be able to write an application to deploy IIS configs to multiple WebServers. The web configurations will be taken from one environment and then be restored on one or more webservers. I have tried out the DirectroyServices API from .NET to manage IIS. I wanted to export all the configuratio...

IIS 5.1: Programmatically Create Virtual Sub-Directory

Background I'm trying to automate the creation of Virtual Directories based on the location of an existing Virtual Directory and its sub-directories. Example: C:\WebSites\Parent\NewVirtualDirectories Where Parent is a Virtual Directory and NewVirtualDirectories contains any automated Virtual Directories. Problem Using the followi...

in test automation, what is the expected probability of a false negative?

This is a rather broad question, I'm looking for any document that contains an estimate or otherwise tries to formulate an answer. Published research would be awesome. When I say false negative, I mean a test result which is logged as a failure, but wasn't actually due to code-defect in the Application-under-test. For context: We've...

Configuration and content management with automated deployment tools for ZF based app

I am trying to automate deployments of a particular project and a bit lost as to who to handle config file as well as user assets. (Application is based on Zend Framework based btw). Main application folder is structured as follows: ./app ./config.ini <----- config file ./modules ./controllers ./models ./view...

Fastest way to interface between live (unsaved) Excel data and C# objects

Hi, I want to know what the fastest way is of reading and writing data to and from an open Excel workbook to c# objects. The background is that I want to develop a c# application that is used from Excel and uses data held in excel. The business logic will reside in the c# application but the data will reside in an Excel workbook. T...

Windows automate install with current state

I have a machine with Windows 7. I want to find a way, to capture its state and propagate it to various machines. What are recommended tools for the same? Thnx! ...

Create Lists from Character String

Hello all, Perhaps my brain is not working today but i cant figure out how to create a list from 2 character strings. I've currently got scale_lab [1] "Very Poor" "Poor" "Average" "Good" "Very Good" [6] "Don't Know" and scale_rep [1] "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "9" So what I want to do is combine the two into a list so ...

For the same screen resolution and DPI settings, Can the pixels for a IDE control change between two OSes?

Assume a GUI application is opened on three machines running Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows7. In all the three machines, the screen resolution and the DPI settings are set to be the same value. Will there be a difference in the way the application is displayed on the screen in terms of number of pixels used and their position on t...

Autoit with FF.au3 and Mozrepl How would I close all tabs in firefox using _FFClosetab() ?

I'm using Firefox 3.6 and I think that there may be a compatibility issue with the Autoit script using #include FF.au3 and Mozrepl to close all of Firefox's open tabs with the addon TMP-TabMixPlus 0.3.8.4 installed. Below is the script I'm using and I would like to add something like this _FFTabClose("all", "index") I can't make it work!...

Running batch file remotely using Hudson

What is the simplest way to schedule a batch file to run on a remote machine using Hudson (latest and greatest version)? I was exploring the master slave setup. I created a dumb slave but I am not sure what the parameters should be so that I can trigger the batch file in the remote slave machine. Basically, I am trying to run 2 differen...

"Attach to Process" as a post-build event

I have an application that runs hosted under the "w3wp.exe" process. While debugging, I often find myself following these steps: 1 - Make some change 2 - Build the project 3 - Attach to "w3wp.exe" using the "attach to process" dialog under the Tools menu. 4 - Perform some action in the application to make my code execute, so I can s...

ViewModel breaks UI automation in WPF

Hi, I have a WPF application that mostly follows MVVM, which I am trying to automate. In some of my user controls I bind the Content property to the ViewModel of another user control. There is a data template defined which maps the ViewModel to the correct View to show on the screen. This works fine for when the application is run b...

Cultureinfo mismatch caused Excel Automation to fail

I am using interop to open Excel files in C#. The current problem I have is that, if the Excel I installed is English, for the opening to work, I have to set LocalSettings to English. It will fail these two do not match. I found that this is an known issue http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320369. However, I could not always set the thre...

Call VB6 dll with office automation from ASP.Net using the impersonated user Identity

I would like to call VB6 dll with office automation from ASP.Net using the impersonated user Identity to connect to database as well as launch excel for automation. I want to pass the NT logged-in user identity to the vb6 dll which make the connection to the database(trusted connection), as it uses NT user info for database security an...

Get the word under the mouse cursor in Windows

Greetings everyone, A friend and I are discussing the possibility of a new project: A translation program that will pop up a translation whenever you hover over any word in any control, even static, non-editable ones. I know there are many browser plugins to do this sort of thing on webpages; we're thinking about how we would do it sys...