[Cosmo-dev] Windmill

[Katie Capps Parlante]

"Write a windmill test" has been sitting on my task list for a while now 
-- perhaps I'll follow along if you are getting help in irc tomorrow.

Cheers,
Katie

Bobby Rullo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It seems like there's been a number of reopened bugs lately - not a 
> terrible amount, but it did make me think to ensure that bugs we close 
> STAY closed, we should really be writing windmill tests for all our UI 
> related check-ins. This is not an original idea or anything, but I feel 
> like it's especially relevant now as we come close to the end of the 
> release - we don't want to start playing an endless game of wack-a-mole.
> 
> So to this end, I svn up'd my windmill directory and tried to get going. 
> Sadly, the wx gui version was really slow, and crashed on me. So then I 
> decided to use the CLI version, which is more up my alley anyhow. I 
> figured out how to load all the tests...but didn't get much beyond that 
> unfortunately! I just didn't know the commands, and couldn't find docs 
> on them anywhere.
> 
> I'm afraid that at this point it seems (as so often happens in Open 
> Source projects) the functionality of Windmill has outpaced the 
> documentation. I would love to see a page listing all the CLI commands 
> on the wiki, and perhaps even a page on the Cosmo section of our wiki 
> detailing how to use Windmill w/ Cosmo.
> 
> Or in the meantime at the very least, maybe someone could hold my 
> virtual hand tomorrow in IRC as I attempt to run/create a test. I'd 
> really like to make Windmill part of my everyday toolkit.
> 
> Anyhow
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