Tag Archives: Windmill

My new gig – Sauce Labs

Posted on March 23, 2010 by

After almost two years of working at Slide Inc, I have started my new job at Sauce Labs. The press release can be found here: “Sauce Labs Adds Windmill Test Framework Co-Creator Adam Christian to Engineering Team“. Slide Inc. I had a fantastic experience and learned a ton working with the really talented team of engineers, artists and product managers over at Slide. It was incredibly educational to work in an environment where so many people use your product everyday. … Continue reading →

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Considering in-house web automation?

Posted on March 2, 2010 by

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 to brain dump some of the issues you may want to consider before you dive in. Choosing Tools Boxes, VM’s or Cloud? A common first … Continue reading →

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Windmill Plugin for Hudson

Posted on May 11, 2009 by

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 to run the tests, this way I can have one job that represents a test run on multiple boxes and multiple browsers on each … Continue reading →

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PyCon 2009 Recap

Posted on April 13, 2009 by

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 community organized event, and amazingly well done. I was impressed by the design of the conference, the way they had four talks going on … Continue reading →

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Skinning Windmill with JQuery UI Themes

Posted on March 24, 2009 by

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 your answer, and it is now easier than ever. 1. Go to: http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ and create your theme (or pick a pre-defined one) 2. Download and … Continue reading →

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Meet lookupNode

Posted on January 20, 2009 by

A few months ago I did a re-write of the DOM access functionality used by Windmill and various other projects of mine and the result was a wrapper around ElementsLib called lookupNode. I use this all over internally but until today didn’t realize that it could be hugely helpful for test developers and people trying to debug their applications. The following list are the different options you have for looking up your node: link xpath id name value classname tagname … Continue reading →

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This thing I’m calling Windmill-Lite

Posted on January 14, 2009 by

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 few pieces: Events: Cross browser compatible event firing functionality ElementsLib: DOM element lookup functionality via many methods called ‘locators’ Controller: The logic for firing the … Continue reading →

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Windmill Gets a Facelift for 1.0Beta1

Posted on November 19, 2008 by

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 functionality hacked into it that wasn’t in the original game plan, so I did what I could to improve the beauty of the CSS/Layout as … Continue reading →

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Zero to Continuous Integration with Windmill

Posted on September 19, 2008 by

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 easy it is to get automated test running setup using Windmill and Hudson. I am not going to walk you through every detail, this is … Continue reading →

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Bringing Windmill to Life

Posted on September 4, 2008 by

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 including everything and anything inside the browser window. This turns out to be a very large task, one that only an Open Source labor … Continue reading →

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