New year, new hosting stack! This blog is now brought to you by Octopress, hosted on Amazon S3, instead of Blogger.
After spending some quality time with the tools I used in the move from Blogger (Octopress, S3, Route 53, git), I feel like the proverbial new pair of glasses …
A while back I was interested in writing some Ruby code that used functions from the Windows IUIAutomation COM interface.
But since IUIAutomation is a custom COM interface that doesn't implement IDispatch, Ruby's Win32OLE module won't work with it.
And I wanted to avoid using a C extension that wraps …
Not too long ago I needed to write some test setup code in C# to check for open IE windows.
The idea was to kill any running IE instances before entering the main portion of the test case - and just for reference, I wanted to record the URL that each …
netcat (or "nc" on the command line) is a useful tool for many reasons.
One common test automation task I've found it handy for is polling a port, waiting for a service to start responding.
While there are many ways to do that, using nc is a handy way to …
The curl command line tool is a great addition to your toolbox when working on web-related testing projects.
It's difficult to add up all the ways curl is useful for testing tasks. Here's an attempt at documenting a few simple scenarios.
OSX ships with …
Inaugural post!
Big news - Selenium 2 was released a few days ago:
http://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/selenium-2-0/
This is a big deal, considering the impressive results Selenium 2 can yield, not to mention the time and effort that went into the project.
So, what better way to …
