Windmill Testing Framework

Since January 1′st Mikeal, MDE and I have been really busy with new adventures but I wanted to thank our community for stepping up and continuing to improve Windmill.

The web sites, getwindmill.com and the github project have been continuing to get more and more traffic all the time. With spikes of over 1000 users on getwindmill.com and 381 users in a day on the github project a couple months ago (averaging around 200 users a day I can safely say that Windmill is continuing to grow it’s user base.

We haven’t done a release since Windmill 1.3, and there have been … Continue Reading

Time for another Open Source BBQ!

All are welcome, contributions appreciated, I’m gonna start cooking around 3pm and probably close it down when the sun goes down.

Please RSVP:

http://www.mobaganda.com/opensourcebbq-june2010

or on Plancast

http://plancast.com/a/3pt9

That’s right! Open Source BBQ this Friday 4/9/2010 in Oakland, CA in my backyard at 4pm until it gets dark.

There will be meat, and stuff that’s not meat, and beer. Contributions welcome, it’s open source after all.

Everyone that writes code is welcome. Please RSVP at http://www.mobaganda.com/opensourcebbq.

I live walking distance from MacAurthur BART, here is a map. When you get there just walk down the driveway in to the backyard.

Friday is also “open friday” at the couch.io office so you can come and work/play at the office during the day and then roll up to the BBQ around 4 ... Continue Reading

The new year is bringing some big changes for me. A few weeks back I accepted a position at Relaxed Inc. and notified Mozilla that I would be leaving at the end of the year.

I started working at Mozilla 2 years ago. I started the day after my employment at the Open Source Applications Foundation ended. At this point I already took for granted some of the best parts of working at Mozilla; working for a public benefit organization, spending 100% of my time working on Open Source, working with very smart people in the open (lists, IRC, etc.).

But Mozilla ... Continue Reading

Windmill 1.3 is the final release before we make some pretty major changes including: auto-waiting, improving running speed, proxy speed, and the addition of full flash integration.

If you rely at all on the speed that Windmill runs tests, then this is your last guaranteed change free release.

However, we have done a lot of work to make this a great release:

Features:

• JQuery Selector Support
• Stability updates for Windows
• Moving all the deps into the Windmill tree, for easier installation
• Show controller method, for hi-lighting the DOM in your tests
• Improving the logic for JS Test reinjection between page loads
• Visual improvements
• Controller method for manually overriding dialogs
• Updating … Continue Reading
  

We have an sdist tarball up here: http://getwindmill.com/sdist/windmill-1.3beta1.tar.gz

This has the jquery locator functionality, plenty of bug fixes, but most importantly — this will be the last release before a bunch of new features go in. If your tests rely on the speed that the current code base runs python tests (ie. the time between actions etc) then you will want to run this release.

Upcoming:

– flash testing work
- automatic waiting on UI actions
- new proxy work
- dramatic speed improvements

Please help us test!

I’m in London for the next few days and would love to grab a drink with any community members be you Mozilla, CouchDB, Python, Windmill, JavaScript or just plain old coffee, whisky or beer geeks

I’m getting all packed up and leaving Sunday for [EuroPython](http://www.europython.eu/) in Birmingham, UK.

This will be my first time at EuroPython and my first time in Europe!

I’ll be giving two talks, one on [Windmill](http://www.getwindmill.com) and one about [CouchDB](http://couchdb.apache.org/) and Python. The Windmill talk will be more or less the talk that I gave at [Open Source Bridge](http://opensourcebridge.org/) last week, which went very well. This is the first time I’ll be talking about CouchDB, the most exciting new technology on the web. The talk will mostly be about breaking our old data modeling habits that we developed to deal with SQL and ... Continue Reading

I’ll be leaving tomorrow morning for [Open Source Bridge](http://opensourcebridge.org/) in Portland, Oregon.

I’m putting together a new [Windmill talk](http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/36) that tries to incorporate all the feedback we’ve received over the last year of speaking which I’ll be presenting on Thursday.

Mozilla is also a [sponsoring](http://opensourcebridge.org/sponsors/) the conference and there is going to be some great [Firefox related sprints in the hacker lounge](http://opensourcebridge.org/wiki/Hacker_Lounge). Dietrich is also giving what sounds like an awesome talk on extending Firefox called [Firefox Switchblade](http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/251).

Hope to see you all there!

PS. I’ll also be at EuroPython and the Community Leadership Summit, more on those later ... Continue Reading

Today, after 5 RC’s we have finally released 1.2.

It’s finally time to:
easy_install -U windmill

Overview

This release now uses a home brewed proxy server, instead of CherryPy allowing us to handle both SSL and binary data like Flash exponentially better.

Also included in 1.2 is a polish of the Windmill command line output, bug fixes for running tests with Nose and full backwards compatible support for Python 2.4. All told 31 logged bug fixes, and countless others coming together to bring what we feel is a pretty big milestone.

Details

To use the newly built in SSL support for testing your application you … Continue Reading