Just a quick one here, WE HAVE SO MANY OPTIONS!!!!!!! I see the short term issue for many prople will be which technology is best, do I go BizTalk now, grow something in house or wait a while for Windows Workflow Foundations. My feeling is that WWF is the long term answer, but that does not help us today, business …

Just been to the Windows Vista: Developing for Test Automation and Accessibility Using Programmatic Access to UI session by Thomas Logan, this is very interesting given the bits I have done over the past year on UI testing. The UI Spy tool and associated framework is a great way to navigate and control the running of …

I have wandered round after the PDC keynoted confused; before I came here I thought I had a plan on what to concentrate on but after the keynote all that went out the window! I am at a loss as to which session to go to as there is so many wildly different areas I want to know more about! The big item that struck me …

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 …