Has anyone managed to find an automation framework/tool that can inspect Pivotal CRM? I have looked at numerous frameworks and tools and none are able to hook into the application to provide any useful information. QTP has come the closest with the ability to locate most buttons, but still a lot of items that are displayed are not accessible.
As I can see Pivotal CRM is .NET application. So you may use Coded UI Tests feature in MS Visual Studio or use Teststack.White framework that is based on UI Automation API.
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Is there any web UI for talend in which we could define mappings from the WEB UI only.
In this way a user can provide mappings at run-time.
Unfortunately no by design. All development work is centralized in the Talend Studio a heavy IDE based on Eclipse. However in the Enterprise versions of Talend, mappings built in the studio can be managed by the WEB UI: Talend Admin Center. Any configuration fed into a mapping can be updated there without having to go into Studio.
I want to know is any library to work with Microsoft Sharepoint ?
Can we program with go language for Microsoft Sharepoint?
Sharepoint is many things and it is unclear what you mean by "Can we program with Go for Sharepoint", but you may want to take a look at Sharepoint 2013 apps, which will support "Self-Hosted Apps", that could be written in any language. From the linked article:
You could be a PHP developer with a Linux machine and still make SharePoint apps.
If you're more interested in interacting with Sharepoint's APIs, it looks like Sharepoint 2013 provides a RESTful API, so again, no problem for Go.
Q1: Unfortunately, googling for such library was not successful in my case.
Q2: If MS Sharepoint (whatever that is) has some known or documented API or it can be accessed by some known or documented protocol(s) then the answer is definitely yes.
My best guess is that this will not be possible. Sharepoint as far as I know is an ASP.NET application designed for the Microsoft IIS platform and depends on the closed-source .NET framework.
Working with Sharepoint over APIs though, should be possible but judging by your question I don't think that's what you want.
We've been asked to look at SharePoint 2010 Standard (we currently have a small intranet on SP2007) with an aim to building a number of custom workflow solutions.
I don't have much experience of SP2010, but from a period of learning/testing it seems to be a very cumbersome system more tailored to allowing individuals/teams to create their own web sites for a specific purpose?
I have also seen some blogs on WF4 - which I have even less experience of! Can WF4 be used "stand alone" or does it require SP2010?
The workflows will range from very basic to reasonably complex based upon variables. e.g. "Route to next person in chain", "route to team based on a value(s)".
So my question is: Could someone give me any assistance in deciding which route to attempt for building workflows? I'm not even sure of the questions to ask of each of them! I appreciate this is subjective, but I'm sure there are people out there who have experience of both?
My experience is in C#.Net/MVC and WCF - the overhead of simply getting an SP2010 Dev environment setup and configured has already made me wary of SP2010!
I can´t tell you much about SharePoint other than that SharePoint 2010 still uses WF3 for its workflow engine. In SP2013 they upgraded to WF4 so if you are looking to run WF4 style workflows you will need to use that instead.
Windows Workflow Foundation is independent of SharePoint. You can create your own Workflow host and Persistence layer. APress had a great book, Foundations of WF which served as a great introduction to Workflow in .net 3.5.
SharePoint 2010 is based on .net 3.5 SP1 and uses the old/original Workflow Engine. It implements its own host and persistence, so it's quite its own beast. There is a wealth of information available for Workflow in SP2007 and SP2010, which is good because the list of caveats, exceptions and "You need to know this, or it'll bite you" cases. In addition, SharePoint 2010 allows workflows to be created in multiple ways: Through Visual Studio (Like a "real" WF Project), through SharePoint Designer and through Visio (the latter two being limited).
WF4 is a new Workflow Engine that Microsoft introduced in .net 4.0. It is not supported in SharePoint 2010, but the next version - SharePoint 2013 - is based on .net 4.5 and should in theory offer support for WF4. I have not verified this though.
I'm trying to get an idea of what Microsoft tools are available that can do some or all of the same testing as Selenium and soapUI. I'm not looking for comments about which people prefer but rather what MS tools I can use that will integrate well with TFS.
Does anyone have any input?
There's Microsoft Test Manager which can do a lot of what Selenium can do , but also integrates really well into your CI builds in TFS, I also believe it has a number of m good features for providing richer bug tracking and recording
Can anyone suggest a good source control system that interfaces with VB2005 Express? As the Express editions of Visual Studio do not allow add-ins does this mean that I will not be able to integrate source control into the IDE? I'm used to the check-in/check-out process of SourceSafe integrated into VB6. Can anyone recommend TortoiseSVN as an alternative?
TortoiseSVN is a good choice. Although it won't integrate into the IDE (because of the plug-in problem you mentioned), it's really solid in the Explorer right-button menu.
Also consider Vault from SourceGear. If you're used to SourceSafe, Vault will be easier to learn; Vault was specifically designed for ex-SourceSafe users.
Take a look at Perforce. It is lightning fast, rock solid, simple to use and configure, and has features to support pretty much any source control scenario.
If you are working on your own (which seems likely, given that you are using VB 2k5 Express), it is free for up to two users. If / when you switch to VS Pro, it has very good integration, and on its own it has several excellent clients and Windows Explorer integration.
I would recommend using Tortoise and do version control through Windows Explorer.
I actually prefer that to Ankh in VS2008.
I use TortoiseSVN and windows explorer for all my development projects and believe it works great. I started with SourceSafe, but when I changed jobs I went to an SVN shop and have now incorporated it into my own development projects. You can also use Source Safe without integration. You use Source Safe to check in/out files in a folder and then manage it outside the IDE. While this isn't as "simple" it may work just fine for certain projects. I use a hosted SVN provider, you may want to check them out: Hosted-Projects.
No, Source Control systems can't be integrated with the VS Express IDEs by design.
If you want to continue using your existing VSS, you're best option is to upgrade to Visual Studio Standard. Otherwise, check out TortoiseSVN. Here's a good quick start:
http://www.polymorphicpodcast.com/shows/subversion/