August 2010 Entries

Powershell Web Testing Harness: a new approach(?)

I have blogged before about using Powershell as a web testing harness before, but recently I started doing something a little different that has made it even more useful and simple before: jQuery. Powershell gives you access to the HTML DOM from IE, but as we all know this is a bit primitive. Essentially, if there are objects on the page with which you want to interact and those objects do not have an id associated with them, you're writing some fragile, painful looping code to traverse the DOM sometimes....