Windmill Testing Framework

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 well as the whole mess of code behind it.

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I didn’t think we’d be doing any notable windmill releases until 1.0. Boy was I wrong!

Seriously Faster

On Wednesday Adam messaged me and said that the windmill startup time was too slow. He was right, we’ve know about this for a while but hadn’t put a lot of serious thought in to how we could reduce it. The issue here was was that we have about 50 JavaScript files that need to get loaded for windmill to start.

Enter windmill-compressor, a new url namespace we added that concats all the js windmill needs in to one file and minifies it. We do ... Continue Reading

Everyone knows how awesome Firebug is. But for those times you have the unfortunate task of debugging in a browser that isn’t Firefox the Firebug team recently put out a new release of Firebug Lite.

For some time now we’ve always had a shell in Windmill for debugging but it was never as nice as the Firebug shell and maintaining that code was kind of a pain. In the recent 0.8.2 release of Windmill we dropped our old shell code and fully integrated Firebug Lite so that whenever you need to debug a test in any browser you ... Continue Reading