Teknologika

WatiN 2.0 RC1

Bruce — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:05:48 +0000

WatiN 2.0 has just gone to Release cantidate, and is chock full to automated testing goodness, head over to http://watin.sourceforge.net/releasenotes-2-0-20-1089.htm for the full release notes.

Runas using windows authentication without prompting … there’s an app for that

Bruce — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:57:34 +0000

At my customer the good old problem of needing to run tests as different users came up again. I have tried to solve this before and came up with parts of the login dialogue handler. The problem is this: when IE starts it uses information in the HKEY Current Users registry hive to decide who [...]

Enjoy it while it lasts

Bruce — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:24:19 +0000

The third site in the stack overflow trilogy,superuser.comlaunched yesterday. I can say quite proudly that I have the 25th highest rep of anyone on the site. For now. Here is a pic to remember the moment, as I am sure I won’t stay there for long.

A peek behind our curtain

Bruce — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:02:06 +0000

I am pretty proud of our WatiN stack, it is in it’s third major version now and is an absolute joy to work with. After seeing some other’s code samples online I thought that I should share some of the details so people can improve what they are doing. We recently hit a new one day [...]

McWatin – can now open and close firefox by itself

Bruce — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:05:16 +0000

With the latest commit to the http://code.google.com/p/mcwatin/ repository can now open and close firefox all by itself. The next feature to add is detection if a browser is open with jssh running and to re-use that browser instead of always launching a new one, or close as appropriate. On thing that I have noticed is [...]

Making progress on the WatiN mac os x port

Bruce — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:52:34 +0000

So I haven’t worked on my WatiN Mac os x port for a few days, but I got back into it last night. The main hurdle at the moment is that the System.Diagnostics.Process class is not fully baked on Mono 2.4 on the Mac platform, because it doesn’t implement the /proc filesystem that linux does. The [...]

WatiN on Mac os x running under mono using monodevelop

Bruce — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:35:16 +0000

I didn’t think it would be this easy, but it’s working. I can now run a basic WatiN test on mac os x using mono.The code is here http://code.google.com/p/mcwatin/. All credit to the WatiN guys, all I did was remove stuff Here’s what you need to get this running Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop preview for [...]

Build successful

Bruce — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:58:37 +0000

Building: McWatiN (Debug)Building Solution McWatiNBuilding: McWatiN (Debug) Performing main compilation...Build complete -- 0 errors, 0 warnings---------------------- Done ----------------------Build successful.Two words that mean so much … this time they refer to WatiN built using MonoDevelop on Mac OS X. 1. Get a subset of WatiN to compile with no PInvokes done 2. Get McWatiN to successfully start firefox. 2. Replace [...]

My Microsoft SDC open day presenation

Bruce — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:26:25 +0000

My presentation at the Microsoft SDC open day alongside Devtest CEO Sarah Richey is now up on Microsoft’s site.http://www.microsoft.com/australia/services/microsoftservices/sdc_openday.mspx For my presentation you need to open the “How we do: Testing” video and I am in the last half following Sarah.

WatiN training ?

Bruce — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:04:06 +0000

I am currently thinking about developing and delivering a WatiN training course. Is this something that anyone would be interested in ? If so, drop me a line via the comments on this blog.