SWA: Straight Outta Redmond
Back in .Net 3.0, Microsoft slipped a little library into the Framework that was missed by most people. That library, System.Windows.Automation, was intended to allow direct programmatic access to MS...
View ArticleSWA in WPF and Silverlight
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about using the System.Windows.Automation libraries in the .Net Framework to write UI Automation, primarily for use in writing automated test cases. Well, that’s only...
View ArticleTest-Driven Disaster
When first considering using Test-Driven Development, many people will consult their local tester. This is, of course, the wrong thing to do, because their local tester doesn’t actually care about...
View ArticleUI Automation: Tricks and Traps
UI Automation and testing can be among the trickiest areas of software testing. Directly testing an API is relatively easy. You’ve got functions to call, well defined inputs and outputs. It’s meant...
View ArticleWeb Automation (or: How To Write A Bot To Steal Porn)
A while back, I wrote about using the System.Windows.Automation libraries to write automation to drive Windows applications. With SWA and UIAutomation, you can write code to use Win32 apps,...
View ArticleAutomated Testing and TinyMCE
Ever come across one of these TinyMCE editors in the stuff you have to test? Well, it’s probably going to give you a headache when you do. There’s a <textarea> in the page, and normally, you’d...
View ArticleContinuous Integration and You
Continuous Integration is probably the most important development in team programming since the rise of source control systems. It’s not a recent development, either, but while source control usage is...
View ArticleSWA: Straight Outta Redmond
Back in .Net 3.0, Microsoft slipped a little library into the Framework that was missed by most people. That library, System.Windows.Automation, was intended to allow direct programmatic access to MS...
View ArticleSWA in WPF and Silverlight
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about using the System.Windows.Automation libraries in the .Net Framework to write UI Automation, primarily for use in writing automated test cases. Well, that’s only...
View ArticleTest-Driven Disaster
When first considering using Test-Driven Development, many people will consult their local tester. This is, of course, the wrong thing to do, because their local tester doesn’t actually care about...
View ArticleUI Automation: Tricks and Traps
UI Automation and testing can be among the trickiest areas of software testing. Directly testing an API is relatively easy. You’ve got functions to call, well defined inputs and outputs. It’s...
View ArticleWeb Automation (or: How To Write A Bot To Steal Porn)
A while back, I wrote about using the System.Windows.Automation libraries to write automation to drive Windows applications. With SWA and UIAutomation, you can write code to use Win32 apps,...
View ArticleAutomated Testing and TinyMCE
Ever come across one of these TinyMCE editors in the stuff you have to test? Well, itâ€s probably going to give you a headache when you do. Thereâ€s a <textarea> in the page, and normally,...
View ArticleContinuous Integration and You
Continuous Integration is probably the most important development in team programming since the rise of source control systems. It’s not a recent development, either, but while source control usage...
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