Windmill Testing Framework

Today Windmill 1.0RC1 was finally pushed to the pypi!

We advise that you:
 easy_install -U windmill 

This release includes an absolutely huge list of bug fixes, including some very important issues in the proxy server and drag and drop code. The list of bugs fixed can be found in the 1.0 section on the Trac Milestone.

At this point we are looking for critical blockers only for the 1.0 release, which we are planning to push before PyCon US next month. Please log any issues you find in Trac so that they can be triaged accordingly.

As some of you may know, we … 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

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