thanks Bill.
actually this is exactly what I found out and is now working on...
looks still painful to learn their grammar/tips/tricks.
for simple automation this one work great. for more complex task like
mine, still need a learn learnings...
regards
ping
On 10/12/2011 05:25 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
When I have to automate stuff like this, I use iMacro addon for Firefox.
billo
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, ping song wrote:
guys:
I recently come with a need to automate some work on a web site,
basically I need to reserve a seat for a test, but due to some reason
all seats were booked already.
chances are that new seats will be released , or someone just drop
their booked seat so it will be also available for others.
the problem here is that I can't (no one hardly can) seat in front of
computer and refresh the web page, check it and book once a seat is
seen.
one day my friend reminds me that why don't use some script /
automation tools to do it? I start to seriously think of it , but it
looks I don't really know what's current the best
practice tools to fullfill this task, especially in linux.
to summary, this is the work to do:
1) login a website
this can be optional. once manually logged in, no need to exit again
2) select the exam type, location, date, etc
3) click some button to accept some agreement, etc
4) click a button to show current seats layout (date-seats table)
5) seats can be "full" or "available" text cell,
a) if full, just click the show seats button again
b) if there is any seat available at any date, click it to book it
6) there might be some other steps to identify the web page info ,
recognize it and handle using if , else,
but basically, the minimum job need to be done is, once a seat is
available, send an email to notify so manual operation can continue
the rest.
interestingly through some google search I found this is exactly
(maybe not) the work description of the QA web testing...
so if expert in that field can shed some lights, I'll be really
appreciate it...
thanks in advance!
regards
ping
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