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 […]

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.

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

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.

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

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

A few useful utilities:

Switch Window
And from the Microsoft XP PowerToys:

Command Prompt Here
Alt-Tab Replacement

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

Pete Freitag has a useful list of Programming Languages Cheatsheets

No more messing around with Alt+PrintScreen, use the freeware MWSnap to improve your screen captures.