Archive for 2006

Testing with Perl and Maxivista

Maxivista has been updated to version 3
Gabor Szabo posted an early version of his Perl in Test Automation course on the Perl GUI Test Yahoo Mailing List

A few links from my inbox

An eclectic list of links that I left in my inbox for too long:

An article on Static Analysis from Dr Dobbs
Articles on packet sniffing with WireShark
Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages
Openclipart.com list of SVG tools
2 freeware MS Excel Plugins:

Extools and
Asap Utilities

But why use AutoIt?

There are many reasons why I am writing about AutoIt and not Perl or Ruby as a mechanism for free GUI test automation on windows. Here I have listed just 5 of them, and I know that some people are going to look at the list and think that what I am touting as a […]

Simple Monkey Tester Annotated

I’m annotating the mokey tester code that I posted yesterday with even more comments for those people that are new to AutoIt and perhaps didn’t understand what the code was doing.

Watch this Essential SysInternals Video

SysInternals have released a free .wmv video file showing all their tools in action. Essential viewing. Read on for a short content review.

How to write a simple Monkey Tester in AutoIt

AutoIt is a simple windows automation language, and in this short code snippet I will give you the code for a very simple Monkey tester.

If you install too much stuff then…

…these tools might help you out: Safarp,Startup Delayer, ShellExView

Yorkspace tools list

Yorkspace.com has a small list of essential tools. I use many of these, and a few alternatives…

Utils for a minor edge

A few useful utilities:

Switch Window
And from the Microsoft XP PowerToys:

Command Prompt Here
Alt-Tab Replacement

Filemon and ProcessExplorer tutorial

this sysinternals blog entry is a great tutorial on how to use Filemon and ProcessExplorer