Archive for the ‘JavaScript’ Category
Considering in-house web automation?
Recently I have had numerous conversations with people at various tiers of companies all over the place who are toying with the idea of building their own test automation and continuous integration infrastructure. Since I have spent a considerable amount of time dealing with such undertakings I decided that it might be worth the time [...]
In: Automation, Continuous Integration, Firefox, Hudson, JavaScript, Open Source, Python, Review, Technology, Web, Work, java · Tagged with: Build, Continuous Integration, java, JavaScript, Linux, Ruby, Testing, WatiN, Watir, Windmill, windows
PyCon 2009 Recap
Getting back in the swing of things after conferencing for weeks can be pretty painful, thus the lateness of the post. However I think it’s important to go over some thoughts still lingering in my brain as a result. First off, I have to say that for those of you who don’t know, PyCon is [...]
In: Automation, Career, Continuous Integration, JavaScript, Open Source, Python, Slide, Technology, Web, Windmill, Windmill-dev · Tagged with: 2009, Automation, Community, Django, Open Source, Oscon, pycon, Testing, using windmill, Windmill, windmill talk
Skinning Windmill with JQuery UI Themes
I have been doing a lot of UI work on the Windmill trunk, and over the past few months I have had multiple requests for the ability to apply skins. Of course my reaction up until this point has been… alter the CSS! Which is not exactly the answer people were looking for. Here is [...]
In: Automation, JavaScript, Windmill, Windmill-dev · Tagged with: JavaScript, jquery, Open Source, skin, Testing, theme, Windmill
MozMill 1.1 UI Overview
During the Open Design session at Mozilla with Aza we were informed that we could load a HTML file with a Chrome URL, allowing me to rebuild the MozMill UI a bit more like a web page instead of using the XUL constructs that I had been struggling with. Granted it feels a lot more [...]
In: Automation, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source · Tagged with: Automation, Development, JavaScript, Mozmill, Open Source, Testing, XUL
Micro-Bookmarking with MyTabs
A few weeks ago I realized that every time I boot my laptop, one of the first things I do is to open Firefox, and immediately load about 7 web sites as tabs. Some of them requiring user interaction to navigate to the desired state. I didn’t realize that this was actually a phenomenon called [...]
In: Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source, Web · Tagged with: Addons, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Mozmill, Open Source
XUSH (.01), you know it’s fun to say.
Over the past 8 months I have been neck deep in XUL and XPCOM and with Venkman being as unintuitive as it is I have badly needed a shell with access to the trusted space in the browser. I also had a couple more requirements, which were that it was super easy to get at [...]
In: Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source, Python, Web · Tagged with: Extension, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Mozmill, Shell, Venkman, XPCOM, XUL
This thing I’m calling Windmill-Lite
In preparation for the Windmill 2 client side re-architecting, and an article I am writing about simulating user sessions with JavaScript, I decided it was time to go through the Windmill JavaScript source and pull out the pieces necessary to drive a user session in JavaScript. It turns out that it’s easily broken into a [...]
In: Automation, JavaScript, Open Source, Python, Technology, Web · Tagged with: Github, JavaScript, JSmin, Programming, Python, Testing, Windmill
Windmill Gets a Facelift for 1.0Beta1
Working up to the Windmill 1.0 Beta 1 Release, I finally had the opportunity to put some time into making the IDE (that a lot of you live in when in test writing mode) a little bit nicer to look at. The IDE has been growing organically since 0.1 and there was a lot of [...]
In: Automation, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source, Python, Technology, Web, Windmill, Windmill-dev · Tagged with: 1.0, Beta, IDE, Mozmill, Release, Testing, UI, Windmill
Bringing Windmill to Life
Project Status I have spent nearly every day since July 7th working to bring the Windmill Project up to a level where it can be used reliably in a production environment. Our mission starts with “Windmill is a web testing framework intended for complete automation of user interface testing”, of course this refers to the [...]
In: JavaScript, Open Source, Technology, Web, Windmill, Windmill-dev · Tagged with: Automation, Community, Feedback, Open Source, Project, Testing, Windmill
Mozilla Summit
I am currently up here in Whistler BC for the Mozilla Summit. There is about 400 people here staying at the Westin Resort & Spa up here in scenic Canada. The schedule for the con can be found here; http://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2008/Sessions/Schedule I do have to say that Mozilla is doing a great job at taking care of [...]
In: Career, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source, Slide, Web, Windmill, Work · Tagged with: 99, History, Mobile, Mozilla, Mozmill, Open Source, Organically, Planning, QA, Rocks, Slide, Summit, Thunderbird, UE, Whistler, XUL
