Windmill Testing Framework

Time for another Open Source BBQ!

All are welcome, contributions appreciated, I’m gonna start cooking around 3pm and probably close it down when the sun goes down.

Please RSVP:

http://www.mobaganda.com/opensourcebbq-june2010

or on Plancast

http://plancast.com/a/3pt9

That’s right! Open Source BBQ this Friday 4/9/2010 in Oakland, CA in my backyard at 4pm until it gets dark.

There will be meat, and stuff that’s not meat, and beer. Contributions welcome, it’s open source after all.

Everyone that writes code is welcome. Please RSVP at http://www.mobaganda.com/opensourcebbq.

I live walking distance from MacAurthur BART, here is a map. When you get there just walk down the driveway in to the backyard.

Friday is also “open friday” at the couch.io office so you can come and work/play at the office during the day and then roll up to the BBQ around 4 ... Continue Reading

I’m in London for the next few days and would love to grab a drink with any community members be you Mozilla, CouchDB, Python, Windmill, JavaScript or just plain old coffee, whisky or beer geeks

I’ll be leaving tomorrow morning for [Open Source Bridge](http://opensourcebridge.org/) in Portland, Oregon.

I’m putting together a new [Windmill talk](http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/36) that tries to incorporate all the feedback we’ve received over the last year of speaking which I’ll be presenting on Thursday.

Mozilla is also a [sponsoring](http://opensourcebridge.org/sponsors/) the conference and there is going to be some great [Firefox related sprints in the hacker lounge](http://opensourcebridge.org/wiki/Hacker_Lounge). Dietrich is also giving what sounds like an awesome talk on extending Firefox called [Firefox Switchblade](http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/251).

Hope to see you all there!

PS. I’ll also be at EuroPython and the Community Leadership Summit, more on those later ... Continue Reading

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 at once and they tried to keep them in a similar interest track. Every talk I attended was at least “good”, ... Continue Reading

Today Windmill 1.0RC1 was finally pushed to the pypi!

We advise that you:
 easy_install -U windmill 

This release includes an absolutely huge list of bug fixes, including some very important issues in the proxy server and drag and drop code. The list of bugs fixed can be found in the 1.0 section on the Trac Milestone.

At this point we are looking for critical blockers only for the 1.0 release, which we are planning to push before PyCon US next month. Please log any issues you find in Trac so that they can be triaged accordingly.

As some of you may know, we … Continue Reading

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

In addition to all the … Continue Reading

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