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iMacros is a very nice tool which allows to authomatically fill HTML forms and extract content, includes cycles and many other features. The problem is that it is quite tricky to make it extracting content properly. For example, I have failed to extract all London-to-Tokio flight prices for all the dates between 1/10/08 to 1/12/08 to find a cheapest one from expedia. Sometimes it just crashes. Does anyone know any good alternative?
Bah, I installed it but never really used it: I am happy enough with Greasemonkey.
Chickenfoot can make it more edible...
Searching for URLs, I found also DéjàClick and Selenium IDE but I don't really know them.
There are lot of other tools for Web automation, most of them professional (read "payware"...).
Alternatively, for just data extraction, I would use cURL or wget and a good HTML parser...
I have heard good things about Selenium IDE also and my limited testing indicates it is pretty capable, and works in Firefox and IE.
For most any macro based testing tool, you will need to do some programming if you need to support multiple, repeatable test cases.
That said, in your example you mention running an Expedia macro... presumably to scrape results. You will want to make sure that you don't hammer Expedia's servers, and/or expect to be booted once they discover you are (effectively) a bot.
I agree imacros is quite unreliable. They crash quite easily if you using complex algorithm or running it continously. The trick is to close it and open it again after loops. It will decrease the number of crash you will find, though not completely.
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Which tool would you say have the fastest learning-curve for "ordinary people" (ie, people whose experience with computers is basically using Faceboook) to be able to write "web tests" (for instance, "access this site, type [X] on this input field, press button, wait 5 seconds, check if the response contains 'OK'").
I'm looking for something that could be teachable in 5-10 hours. I don't care if it results in a stable and very reliable test. This is just to be an alternative for a "monkey tester" while integration tests aren't developed.
The simplest idea I can think is a macro-recorder (recommending the tester to wait a longer time for things that may take longer) and taking a screenshot in the end (the tester would select parts of the image that are important).
Is there anything better than that (or at least that)?
Thanks
With 5-10 hours learning Selenium IDE for basics tests should be more then enough.
It's free
Huge userbase, lots of learning materials and ready to use examples
No installation needed, just add-on to firefox (or other browsers as well)
A little familiarity with html and javascript enables you to write rather complex tests for your web application
If for some reasons Selenium IDE is not an option for you you might check products like e.g. Ghost inspector or Visual Studio Test Manager.
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I am looking into ways of documenting my code in a JavaDocs kinda way.
Any ideas?
I use UFT 11.52
So far I have seen NaturalDocs + Perl.
Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance.
At least one solution looks
practical,
mature,
is delivered in source code form (consists of one huge (but very professionally written) VBS script that generates the documentation fragments),
and is absolutely free:
VBSdoc, "A VBScript API Documentation Generator"
See http://www.planetcobalt.net/sdb/vbsdoc.shtml.
The author appears to be very competent, given his high SO rep (see https://stackoverflow.com/users/1630171/ansgar-wiechers), and the general quality of his website's content.
Of course, this one is built for standalone VBS scripts, not QTP/UFT scripts. But this should be no obstacle, given the source code is available.
I'd love to hear from you about experiences with this one. Feel free to edit them into this answer, be it accepted or not.
I had success using Natural Docs several years ago. It's one of the few things I blogged about: automated code documentation for QTP
There is a product called Test Design Studio, an IDE alternative for QuickTest and UFT. One of the key features it provides is the ability to generate detailed documentation. It uses XML-style comments to mark up your code, and those comments drive documentation. The same comments also drive detailed IntelliSense for editing your code.
It does exactly what you're talking about.
Test Design Studio
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I want to develop a plagiarism checker for checking several source codes but I couldn't find any proper source code or even a resource to get an idea about it.
I have checked the Boss2 which is useless. they claim that they use Sherlock module for detecting plagiarism but it seems there is no such tools included in boss2.
if any open source detection tool is available for checking source code please let me know.
regards
I'm aware of open-source plagiarism detectors for text (e.g., WCopyFind), but not code.
I couldn't find... even a resource to get an idea about it.
The authors of the excellent closed-source tool MOSS have published a helpful paper about the technology.
I know the question is old, but I did land here from a google.
Sherlock is an open source plagiarism detector. Sherlock's home page is here
I wrote SimiCheck, and you are welcome to use it. If you are interested in an API, I could probably write one very quickly.
I wrote the original algorithm as part of the CrowdGrader peer-grading tool, but then I decided to make the comparison tools available independently.
SimiCheck can handle code, Word (.docx), html, pdf, text, ..., as well as .zip, .tar, .gz, .tgz, and some more formats, and can deal with variable renaming, code moves, code across multiple files, etc.
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What are the best free uml drawing tools?
All the ones I have found require membership payments and only offer limited functionality based to public users on a trial basis...rubbish!
For my (very simple) needs I used ArgoUML. I'm not an expert about, but I found it enough easy to use. It's open source and, on the web page, you can find a good user guide.
Have a look at StarUML ( http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/ )
It's free, open source, and incredibly fully featured.
For a full list, check out the ones marked as Open Source here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unified_Modeling_Language_tools
But I'd really recommend StarUML!
For my first two software engineering courses, I used the stand alone version of UMLet, but it is just for diagrams. It exports to standard graphics, or pdf. They also have an eclipse plugin version, but I never used it.
For a no frill drawing tool, I find Google Docs (drawings) pretty good. Note that printing works better under Mozilla than Chrome, strangely enough. In Chrome, I cannot get dashed lines to print.
Try UMLet. Supports Eclipse IDE.
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This weekend I installed Windows 7 (brilliant!) and there I found this genious tool called Problem Steps Recorder. Apparently a tool that came with the beta bug reporting tool thingy.
I am currently trying to document some application usages for other developers. (In this exact case, how to get Showplan XML Statistics in SQL Profiler and some basic usage of Database Engine Tuning Advisor). And I was thinking that a tool like that Problem Steps Recorder with be perfect for this! Only problem is that it is only in windows 7 (?) and the output is an mht file which also contains some general bug issue text etc...
Anyways, does anyone know if this tool is available in a more general version? Or if there are some free and smooth alternatives which does kind of the same thing for Vista (and other windows versions if possible)?
Maybe Wink is your answer.
I'm looking for a better capture tool for both user documentation and reporting bugs. The best "steps recorder" that I've seen is bundled with Testuff. Their Test Runner app lets you select a region to record (video). It captures every mouse click and logs every key press along side the video playback. Of course, it's designed only for reporting bugs to a development team.
I'm still using SnagIt (cheap, not free) for capturing screens and adding annotations. I also have Camtasia, but that's definitely not "free" as you requested :)
I just stumbled upon 'Imago recorder', available via various software / download sites. It's not pretty but it does the trick and it's free.
It's currentyl available here
Additional option you should definitely pay attention to is StepsToReproduce. There are several options for recording (screen/window/region) and nice powerful annotation tools. And it's also free!