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.

Launching If you have ... Continue Reading

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

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