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

In addition to all the … Continue Reading

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

Today we released Windmill 0.8.0, we are jumping the release number from 0.4.5 to 0.8.0 because the project has now reached a level of maturity that one usually expects on a 1.0 approach. The recent attention Windmill has been receiving in development and community has been very encouraging and we are very excited about the next steps for the project.

Release 0.8.0 is a milestone signifying that we have met the majority of our goals that we had set over a year ago, and are now moving our focus to refining features and taking on the important challenges to become the … Continue Reading

Sorry for the delay in Blog announcements, we’ve been heads down improving windmill for many many months and let the blogging slip through the cracks a bit.

The 0.4.5 is a big release, we’ve gotten a lot of bug fixes and features in the releases since 0.3.

Here is a list of new features (the bugfixes are too numerous to list):

• Moved Firefox launching to the mozrunner library (features of mozrunner are extension installation and granular pref setting among others)
• IDE enhancements for IE 6/7, settings, load speed and user experience
• Full XPath support in IE 6/7
• Much improved logic for sleeping, and waiting on lower … Continue Reading
  

We know this is well overdue, we have done many small bug fix releases since our 0.3.5 release. It was finally time to get 0.4 out the door, and many of the fixes in this release are resulting from the needs of the community.

Please, everyone;
easy_install -U windmill
Some of the changes are;

• Supporting Firefox 3 and Safari 3.1.1
• Fixed the communication loop from taking over your CPU.
• Visual tweaks to make the IDE more usable in IE.
• Major visual updates to the IDE, resizing, dialogs etc.
• XPath functionality additions.
• Updates in the back end for customization and continuous integration.
• Any many many more.

It’s been a fun week, and we fixed a lot of bugs. Somehow some features made it in too.

We shipped 5 bug fix releases this week, putting us at a current release of 0.3.5, available in the cheeseshop.

Please, everyone;
easy_install -U windmill
Some of the changes are;

• wxUI fixes for new load and run methods.
• Various fixes in load_test.
• New option to load single json file bypassing dependency framework.
• Command line option for extensions directory.
• Fixes in the “type” command. We now simulate keypress actions for each character, allowing closer simulation of a real user and fixing some more advanced use cases.
• Better firebug debugging available.
• Huge fixes … Continue Reading
  

Our third major release of windmill is out the door. The primary focus of this release was tackling the larger framework related issues and features for Python and JSON tests. Usage of windmill has been steadily increasing and we saw the need for a more feature rich collection, dependency and setup/teardown system for Python and JSON tests, and the ability to mix and mash Python and JSON tests.

These changes meant we deprecated almost all the old test running command line and shell options. Now there is a more unified function that takes a directory or file in Python or JSON … Continue Reading

Now available in the cheeseshop.

Fixes Include:

• The option to use XPATH as your locator all the time
• The global play button becomes a stop button when using action specific play buttons
• A Safari 3 specific checkbox fix
• Automatically turning off the recorder when enabling the explorers to avoid confusion
• Making the assert explorer work as expected with SPAN tags
• The IDE now preserves locator information when changing the method
• Making xpath work out of the box, recorder and the explorers

Now available in the cheeseshop.

Fixes Include:

• Added configurable global timeouts for Windmill controller functions
• IDE playback now functions as expected, stop clears the service queue.
• Fixed Windmill IDE action/scroll bar overlap issues
• Added auto collapsing suite functionality
• Cross frame recording and playback now work OOTB.
• IE6/IE7 launchers are again working as expected