[Cosmo-dev] Windmill

[Bobby Rullo]

Fun times!
On Aug 2, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:

> "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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