Windmill Testing Framework

We are finally in 1.0 beta mode, the improvements are vast and the polish is shiny. Please make sure that any bugs you know about, or have discovered are logged so that we can consider them for the final 1.0 release. Beta 1 will be in QA for the next couple weeks and we hope to get any lasting 1.0 blockers squashed!

The IRC channel is a great place to come chat with us if you are having any issues or questions. Again if you are new to Windmill its #windmill on FreeNode.

It’s a very exciting time for the project, … 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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Today we released Windmill 0.8.2 which includes some important bug fixes, and very exciting feature work.

Features include:

• 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

Bug Fixes include:

• http://trac.getwindmill.com/ticket/135
• Windmill defaulting to timeout for starting service loop
• Many others, view the timeline

We feel 0.8.2 is a very stable and useable release so we are going to begin our effort to get the word out about the project. To aid in this effort we now have a Windmill Twitter … Continue Reading

The long lost contrib project wxWindmill has been updated, retooled and broken off into it’s own project. The interface adds that piece of the workflow that many of you have been asking for in order to avoid running everything from the command line.

Currently wxWindmill is supporting the following features:

• Running test files, and test directories
• Loading test files, and test directories
• Launching Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer
• Killing the open Windmill test browser instances
• Clearing the Test Queue
• A built in Python Shell
• A scoped Python Shell to Windmill
• A fun … Continue Reading
  

Over the past few months we have been discussing a move of Windmill’s infrastructure off of OSAF hardware. Today we started the moving process, obviously you made it here so you have seen the new face of Windmill.

The follow are the new locations where things will be found (all links on getwindmill.com should be up to date):

• Home: http://www.getwindmill.com
• Windmill Source Repository: http://svn.getwindmill.com
• Trac Instance: http://trac.getwindmill.com
• Windmill-Dev: http://groups.google.com/group/windmill-dev
• Windmill-Checkins: http://groups.google.com/group/windmill-checkins
  

We are excited to start a new chapter for the new project, a lot of progress has been made in the last couple months as we outlined in the 0.8.0 release. The wxWindmill … Continue Reading

We noticed after the launch of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest someone had added a windmill task to the Python GHOPC task list. A fairly simple one, create a screencast, something we’ve been trying to do for months and just haven’t gotten to — just like about a dozen other documentation related tasks. The screencast is available in avi format, playable in VLC, here.

It turned out really nice and we’re impressed with how quickly we’re seeing people do work through the GHOPC. I was so impressed in fact that I applied to be a … Continue Reading