Category Archives: Testing

Compromised.

Posted on June 6, 2007 by bc

My shell account at Dreamhost was compromised and this site was vandalized. It appears this was a wide spread event and a number of other sites hosted at Dreamhost were affected. If you have an account at Dreamhost, I recommend … Continue reading →

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Firefox and Thunderbird testing – Script Framework

Posted on March 13, 2007 by bc

The latest installment of my automated testing saga is now available at Script Framework. This outlines the components that I have been using in automated testing and provides an example where a build is downloaded, installed, a profile created, an … Continue reading →

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Firefox and Thunderbird testing – killableprocess.py

Posted on March 9, 2007 by bc

Benjamin Smedberg wrote to point out killableprocess.py which looks like a much more robust tool than timed_run.py. I’ll check it out as a replacement for timed_run.py in my framework as soon as I finish the first round of documentation I … Continue reading →

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Firefox and Thunderbird testing – timed_run.py

Posted on March 8, 2007 by bc

timed_run.py is a modified version of a Python script written by Chris Cooper that manages the execution of external programs with the ability to terminate programs which do not complete within a specified period of time.

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Spider and Firefox automation

Posted on November 28, 2006 by bc

Spider has been updated to version 0.0.2.4. This update includes minor changes to the default output messages Spider issues as well as the ability to load browser chrome in addition to normal web pages. I’ve made a kludgey attempt to … Continue reading →

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