SAMIE

I would like to give a big thanks to Misha Rybalov for solving access to popup windows.  He groked samie after about twenty e-mails, contributed the Verify and Index subroutines, enhanced it quite a bit for his own company and wrote an interface from Java to samie using XML-RPC.

I have added to cvs two simple modules.  The first lets you use a property file or command line with samie and the other offers a convenient way to use dbi to either get at a database for loading data or to store results.

I am available for samie seminars.  Contact hwasserm@yahoo.com to discuss setting up your qa group with an unlimited number of active perl samie seats. Seminars range from learning PERL to creating a network harness that will run concurrent samie sessions, to just learning the samie basics. The documentation links below contain short samie recipes, to give those who already know perl a head start. Finally, I am considering doing some samie conference calls.

There is a venerable book out on the topic of Win32 perl.  Although I did not use it to write samie, after samie was done, I noticed some rather good explanations of the basics of what was accomplished.  The authors' name is Dave Roth . His book is called Win32 PerlProgramming. Specifically chapter 5 on OLE automation.

Which reminds me of a nice Oreilly website called Safari. With this site you can read as many as 5 different books for $10.00 a month.

Here is a link to a nice free perl tutorial for beginners Picking Up Perl

Many thanks to Bob Marchetti for getting so excited about the creation of samie, originally posting my code to the web and starting this sourceforge project, even though he didn't know how to use cvs! He also drew the humble picture of little samie and showed me this nice open source Perl IDE  for debugging.  I believe his original name for samie was bamie (basic) or wamie (windows).  Anyway he was the first user other than myself and is an excellent Quality Engineer.

Mr. Marchetti was also responsible for coaching me on how to change the belt on my clothes dryer, to which I will ever be grateful.

Bob and friends have been working on a python version of samie for a while now. His project is called Pamie.

If you would like to write in Ruby there are a bunch of folks putting together a worthy alternative to samie called WATIR

 

List of Features

1.  samie is written in ActivePerl which means you inherit all PERL functionality including:
1. regular expressions
2. PERL dbi database access
3. Many of the PERL cpan library functions
4. It's lightweight - you can start it from the command line.
5. No licensing fees.

2. It uses Internet Explorers built in COM object which means you get a reference to Microsoft's dhtml for each window or each html frame in a window.  The dhtml DOM (Document Object Model) gives you
1. All html functionality that Java Script can access which means
2. The ability to change values of edit boxes, radio buttons, check boxes etc.
3. The ability to click any object
4. The ability to verify any text found in the html or any attribute or any object for that matter.
   
   
3. Development is fairy easy - no keeping track of gui maps for each window - no separate table functions
   
   
4. Maintenance is fairly easy because you are working with the same DOM that development works with to create web pages and write Java Script.  samie spins through the whole DOM looking for objects.  If these objects move around on the page due to spec requirements between builds.  samie will find them.
    
5. Slingshot the samie GUI will help you find controls on a page and write samie scripts.