Windmill Testing Framework

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

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

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