A great evening. We went for pizza and met irascian who was most interesting to chat to, and a Microsoft 9er (2nd from left in picture) who did the channel9 redesign, I think his name is Adam Kinney. Met Scoble, and stayed for a very interesting discussion about life, the universe and Microsoft. Then went on to the …

Richard and I registered today. Saw the "Big Room" which is the name for the aircraft hangar where commnet, hol, and the channel 9 sit down is all happening. Posted a couple of pics to the Channel 9 website, of me and Richard with the 9 guy and Richard lounging on the 9 guy bean bags. Also available in our …

Black Marble is at the PDC in LA! Robert and Richard have touched down and are ready to go! PDC05

Robert and myself are off to the PDC in LA next week, get in touch if you want to meet up. Richard

The techniques used in my .NET GUITester project, though developed using C#, are applicable to any of the 30+ .NET Framework supported languages. .NET does provide support for Microsoft's own 'Java like' language J#, but this is not actual Java. So I have done a small trial to see if similar techniques i.e. reflection …

I am please to announce that the first release of my GUITest framework for is available. I have posted the following items: HTML article on the system PDF User manual (very similar to the HTML article) Sample of the GUITester (EXEs and DLLs only) Complete source for the system I look forward to hearing any comments …

1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Problem The graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer system is one of the most troublesome sub-systems to test. Though some products have been marketed to address this area they have not been that well-received or effective. All such products have tended to be based on macro recording systems …

Indigo and Avalon Beta1 (RC) has been posted at Avalon and Indigo Beta 1 RC This beta targets Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 and the only words I can use to describe it is totally awesome. We migrated all our Visual Studio 2005 installations to Beta2 at release due to the dependences for Avalon/Indigo/DSL tools we will not …

Black Marble's latest seminar, Web Enabling your Business, takes place next Wednesday (18 May) at Touchbase. Come for the usual high standard of content ... and stay for the food! If you want to reserve a place, check out our website for details.

Testing of software, and specifically the automated testing of software, is an area I have always been interested in. Recently I have been working on ways of automating the testing of .NET Windows Form applications. Today I have posted an article The automated testing of graphical user interfaces in .NET as a taster as …