Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction. The Fake Workflows you create can be saved, reopened, and shared.
(Link: Fake – Mac OS X Web Browser Automation and Webapp Testing Made Simple.)
Fake – Mac OS X Web Browser Automation and Webapp Testing Made Simple.
Selenium-Flex API allows automation of Flex applications using the popular test automation tool Selenium.
The Selenium-Flex API allows automation of Flex applications using the popular test automation tool Selenium. The API is easy to set up and can be done with only basic working knowledge of either Flex or Selenium.
(Link: Selenium-Flex API allows automation of Flex applications using the popular test automation tool Selenium.)
EventGhost – automation tool for MS Windows
EventGhost is an advanced, easy to use and extensible automation tool for MS Windows. It can use different input devices like infrared or wireless remote controls to trigger macros, that on their part control a computer and its attached hardware. So it can be used to control a Media-PC with a normal consumer remote. But its possible uses go much beyond this.
(Link: EventGhost – automation tool for MS Windows)
Delivering More Groceries, and Fewer Boxes – NYTimes.com
FreshDirect spent $1 million to install crossovers in the assembly-line-like system for collating and packing customers’ orders and reprogrammed its computer system to combine elements of small orders from the three areas.
“We had to write an enormous amount of code,” Mr. Ackerman said, “because any one of 10,000 products can go to any point at any time.”
(Link: Delivering More Groceries, and Fewer Boxes – NYTimes.com)


July 22, 2010
