Blue Sky On Mars

It’s been a good couple of weeks for automated functional testing tools. First, there was Selenium for webapps, and now there’s Windows Application Test System Using Python (WATSUP) for Windows applications. I’ve found that automated functional tests for anything with a GUI can be quite challenging, and these tools look like a good way to help.

Tired of the point and click drudgery of XML Spy? Take a look at: XSH: Interactively Manipulate and Analyze XML Data. XSH is a perl script that lets you interactive cd to different nodes of the document, ls to see whats there, and run perl snippets with easy XPath goodness baked in.