Windmill Testing Framework

We are another step closer to 1.0, if you have been watching the mailing lists or the trac timeline you already know that we have had some serious bug fixes over the past couple weeks as well as one new feature.

Bug Fixes:

• Major fixes and updates for the Windmill Unit Tests
• IE fixes for: Drag and Drop, Click, UI usability, Non Compress deps broken
• JS Test Framework bug fixes, JUM assertions, unit tests,
• Improved XPath Generation and bug fixes

Feature

• Full support for launching and killing Google Chrome on Windows (requires Python 2.6)

We really appreciate all the bug reports and emails from you all, … Continue Reading

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 option for changing service port
• Django Support
• Forwarding Conditionals
• Addition of firebug lite support in IDE and Testing Application
• Fully functional wxWindmill contrib application
• Enhanced ’smart’ recorder
• Auto element scroll into view to more closely simulate users
• Improved IDE user interface
• Improved frame recursive element look ups for IE

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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 of love could possibly attempt to accomplish.

Windmill has slowly evolved as a project with ... Continue Reading