Windmill

I didn’t think we’d be doing any notable windmill releases until 1.0. Boy was I wrong! Seriously Faster On Wednesday Adam messaged me and said that the windmill startup time was too slow. He was right, we’ve know about this for a while but hadn’t put a lot of serious thought in to how we could reduce [...]

Following ‘automation’ and ‘continuous integration’ in the micro blogging world I have seen a major influx in people being super interested in functionally automating their web apps. I have seen a slew of things about Grid, and Selenium, and people hacking on Watir so I decided to show you from the ground up how incredibly [...]

Another round of productive bug fixes and feature additions have happened over the last few weeks. We are now positioning the project to approach a 1.0 release, which means that our goals for the coming releases is focused on shaking out all those blocker bugs before we push the big milestone. New Features, since 0.8.0 Command line [...]

Everyone knows how awesome Firebug is. But for those times you have the unfortunate task of debugging in a browser that isn’t Firefox the Firebug team recently put out a new release of Firebug Lite. For some time now we’ve always had a shell in Windmill for debugging but it was never as nice as the [...]

I had the pleasure of attending the very first DjangoCon this last weekend. I’ve attended a lot of conferences; big conferences, small conferences, very targetted conferences and very broad conferences. I think DjangoCon may have been the best ... [More] conference I’ve ever been to. Over the years what I’ve learned to truly value about a conference is; meeting [...] [Less]

Adam wrote a great post recently on some code he wrote that outputs his test results in an xml format that Hudson can digest. It serves as an example of a fairly underutilized feature in functest for reporting. It’s incredibly simple and powerful, you add a simple class to the highest level __init__.py with your [...]

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 web [...]

Today we released Windmill 0.8.2 which includes some important bug fixes, and very exciting feature work. Features include: Addition of firebug lite support in IDE and Testing Application Fully functional wxWindmill contrib application Enhanced ... [More] ’smart’ recorder Auto element scroll into view to more closely simulate users Bug Fixes include: http://trac.getwindmill.com/ticket/135 Windmill defaulting to timeout for starting service [...] [Less]

A large part of the utility in a testing framework like Windmill is the ability to interoperate with a continuous integration environment. Much of the work that has gone into Windmill recently has been the result of continuous integration needs. There are many ways to do this with existing software packages out there that include [...]

We decided a while ago that it would be best to move the windmill project off of OSAF’s infrastructure. The decision was much easier to come to than the actual execution of the move. I had assumed that the difficult things to migrate would be Trac and that the subversion migration would go by fairly smoothly, [...]