automation – Page 11

R command for setting working directory to source file location in Rstudio

November 27, 2022 by Tarik

To get the location of a script being sourced, you can use utils::getSrcDirectory or utils::getSrcFilename. So changing the working directory to that of the current file can be done with: setwd(getSrcDirectory()[1]) This does not work in RStudio if you Run the code rather than Sourceing it. For that, you need to use rstudioapi::getActiveDocumentContext. setwd(dirname(rstudioapi::getActiveDocumentContext()$path)) This … Read more

WatiN or Selenium? [closed]

November 21, 2022 by Tarik

Just want to say that I’m currently working hard on a beta release of WatiN 2.0 somewhere in Q1 of 2009. It will be a major upgrade to the current CTP 2.0 versions and will basically give you the same functionality to automate FireFox and IE as version 1.3.0 offers for automating IE. So no … Read more

Casperjs/PhantomJs vs Selenium

November 19, 2022 by Tarik

They are attacking different problems. Since PhantomJS runs perfectly on the command-line, it is suitable as the first layer of smoke testing, whether as part of development workflow and/or in a continuous integration server. Selenium targets multiple browsers and hence it is very useful to ensure cross-browser consistency and carry out extensive testings across different … Read more

Have bash script answer interactive prompts [duplicate]

November 18, 2022 by Tarik

A simple echo “Y Y N N Y N Y Y N” | ./your_script This allow you to pass any sequence of “Y” or “N” to your script.

NAnt or MSBuild, which one to choose and when?

November 14, 2022 by Tarik

I’ve done a similar investigation this week. Here’s what I’ve been able to determine: NAnt: Cross-platform (supports Linux/Mono). It may be handy for installing a web site to multiple targets (that is, Linux Apache and Windows IIS), for example. 95% similar in syntax to Ant (easy for current Ant users or Java builders to pick … Read more

How to remove unused imports in Intellij IDEA on commit?

October 19, 2022 by Tarik

If you are using IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio: Go to Settings > Editor > General >Auto Import and check the Optimize imports on the fly checkbox.

How can you automatically remove trailing whitespace in vim

October 12, 2022 by Tarik

I found the answer here. Adding the following to my .vimrc file did the trick: autocmd BufWritePre *.py :%s/\s\+$//e The e flag at the end means that the command doesn’t issue an error message if the search pattern fails. See :h :s_flags for more.

Typing the Enter/Return key in Selenium

September 27, 2022 by Tarik

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN); The import statement is for Java. For other languages, it is maybe different. For example, in Python it is from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

Running script upon login in mac OS X [closed]

September 27, 2022 by Tarik

Follow this: start Automator.app select Application click Show library in the toolbar (if hidden) add Run shell script (from the Actions/Utilities) copy & paste your script into the window test it save somewhere (for example you can make an Applications folder in your HOME, you will get an your_name.app) go to System Preferences -> Users … Read more

OS X Bash, ‘watch’ command

September 22, 2022 by Tarik

With Homebrew installed: brew install watch