I think I have the "Wright" stuff. Yep that's not a typo but a reflection on the kind of baling wire and twine that I am having to cobble together to make some tests for our recently launched Go Daddy File Folder for windows.

First out I went to my goto light automation scripting tool called Macro Scheduler made by mjtnet and hit my usual problems with it being unable to recognise a checkbox that I wanted to be checked, oh sure I could directly address it by screen coordinates but given Facebook's profile changes on a regular basis that wasn't going to be remotely stable. Good enough for a few bulk file uploads but nothing I'd rely on. So I stumbled upon Watir ( Ok Bill told me about it ) which is an open source library for automating the browser and uses ruby as the language .. Great apart from our app is in an Iframe and IE seemingly hates the idea of you accessing a frame that's on a differnent domain from the one that launches it. Not only does it hate it it sabatages it

That drove me nuts so I move to Firewatir which is the FF version of the browser driver Et voila I can see frames I can hit the controls and.. Crap the JS uploader isn't visible never mind there's another library to automate that.. So in the spirit of invention I know many ways NOT to automate these tests. At the same time I picked up the flash / actionscript education again andif I can persuade people around me ( toddler) to let me think maybe something that flies will wander out of my cube. Anyway that's why I've not been posting too much on this blog.


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