Windmill

I’ll be leaving tomorrow morning for [Open Source Bridge](http://opensourcebridge.org/) in Portland, Oregon. I’m putting together a new [Windmill talk](http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/36) that tries to incorporate all the feedback we’ve received ... [More] over the last year of speaking which I’ll be presenting on Thursday. Mozilla is also a [sponsoring](http://opensourcebridge.org/sponsors/) the conference and there is going to be some great [Firefox related [...] [Less]

I’ll be leaving tomorrow morning for Open Source Bridge in Portland, Oregon. I’m putting together a new Windmill talk that tries to incorporate all the feedback we’ve received over the last year of speaking which I’ll be presenting on Thursday. Mozilla is also a sponsoring the conference and there is going to be some great Firefox related [...]

Today, after 5 RC’s we have finally released 1.2. It’s finally time to: easy_install -U windmill Overview This release now uses a home brewed proxy server, instead of CherryPy allowing us to handle both SSL and binary data like Flash exponentially ... [More] better. Also included in 1.2 is a polish of the Windmill command line output, bug fixes for running [...] [Less]

We just cut the 1.2 RC5 tonight, with another round of great fixes and enhancements. This release is hugely important because it unleashes the SSL functionality on the world. The large code re-factor under the hood changed the way a lot of things work and we need you to run your tests and let us [...]

Over the last 6+ months, I have been using Hudson in conjunction with Windmill very heavily for continuous integration. For the most part using the build step specific to whatever the slave OS requires has worked sufficiently well until recently when my needs changed. I use the ‘configuration matrix’ option to build a matrix of browsers [...]

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 a [...]

We’re going to be doing a unittesting Sprint. Our goal is to improve the current Windmill unittests in order to reduce regressions and allow us to take on new contributions faster and with greater confidence. If you’re interested in working *on* windmill feel free to come on to IRC in #windmill on irc.freenode.net any time during the [...]

So much good stuff landed in Windmill over the last few weeks that we decided to push another major release. The biggest new features are: django management command for running windmill tests (Jacob said the existing django support wasn’t good ... [More] enough and I agreed so I wrote this during the PyCon Sprints) new nose plugin cygwin support contributed [...] [Less]

The video from PyCon of the Functional Test Tools Panel has been making the rounds and one comment in particular that seems to be gaining some traction is a comment Jason Huggins made about test recorders being “evil”. I didn’t comment about it while I was on the panel because I have mixed experiences with [...]

Just in time for PyCon we’re releasing Windmill 1.0. It’s been almost 3 years of development and I’m both excited and relieved to have something we’re comfortable calling 1.0. The latest RCs have seen bigger improvements than we thought would make it. A new wave of contributions has given us some great new features in Django [...]