Automation is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies to optimize productivity in the production of goods and delivery of services.
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Create prototype system with intelligent agents
I am involved with a prototype that will wrap Web services and Web-enabled devices (e.g. Web cams) with agents. The goal is to give the appearance that these services and devices have some ...
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SBCL development on Windows, including CFFI
I have been asked to automate the operation of a Windows (WinForms) application, performing some fairly complicated statistical analysis along the way.
My first thought was the usual suspects: .NET, ...
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Continuous integration and modifying existing UI automation tests
Our team is currently facing a situation where we are changing a feature that is in the product today. This feature has Selenium automation tests associated with it.
We are performing a fairly major ...
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Mapping variable inputs to user interface elements
Background
Developing a system for creating eBooks. The data is highly normalized. The eBook designs are packaged as "themes." The themes can be configured with options for: fonts, colours, some ...
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Automating database deployment using a CMS
My team are developing Umbraco websites and looking to improve the automation of our database deployment. Currently we have automated builds and deployments of our source code using Kiln and Team ...
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CakePHP: Automation triggers after save - best done as component or behavior?
Looking for some guidance in creating some automation in CakePHP, and I'm wondering if the automation is best used a component or a behavior. It's model driven but involves logic and processing. ...
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Create an automated program to check a site every day [closed]
Is it possible to create an automated program that will visit a web page every day? I'd like to make it run in the background (preferably non-visibly) when my computer loads and I have internet ...
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When to bail on a proposed solution?
Here's a *hypothetical* issue.
There is a performance issue in the current release. Its difficult to find the cause of this issue because the performance tests haven't been run in roughly 10+ ...
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QTP - Identifying an object on a page with changing title
There is a webelement on my page containing a text I need to parse. The problem is that when I add this object to the repository, it belongs under the page I am on and thus will not work with other ...
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How do I make a window that acts as a middleman between a client program's IO and the user's IO?
For Windows 7, in any of the tagged languages (vb.net, C#, Java) would it be possible to have a (100*ratio)x100 px^2 "middle" window that would be able to:
Copy a windows's graphics data ...
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Is the development of CLI apps considered “backward”?
I am a DBA fledgling with a lot of experience in programming.
I have developed several CLI, non interactive apps that solve some daily repetitive tasks or eliminate the human error from more complex ...
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How can I maintain a SQL schema upgrade that goes out to our users on a regular basis?
I work on a project that uses a SQL database as a back end, and a desktop app as a front end. We do releases on a regular basis, and as part of a release, our client needs to update their SQL server.
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UI (Specifically FLEX) automation testing
I was wondering whether the community utilizes automation tests to the extent of UI? Is there some common best practices for testing UI?
Also - the product I'm working on is flex-based. I would love ...
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How can you provide a public writeable API and not get spammed?
So say you had a site like StackExchange. Now imagine you created a machine-writeable API capable of posting questions and comments and doing everything your browser can do.
Of course, about 5 ...
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Automation Approaches: Events/Triggers/Cron [closed]
It has been my experience, when building websites, that most of the logic of a system is executed when user input is accepted, be it via POSTs, GETs etc. I would like to know what processes or ...
