Comments on Coding Instinct: Browser Automation DSL using MGrammar, Part 2

YES! A browser automation DSL like this would be ...

2008-11-30T23:37:00.000+01:00

YES! A browser automation DSL like this would be _stupendously_ useful to our QA engineer, business analyst, and even business-people. Please continue! :-)

Pete

Great post. I guess giving an automation language ...

2008-11-26T23:24:00.000+01:00

Great post. I guess giving an automation language an English-like syntax is okay (see the Apple Script). That's the same kind of syntax I would use :)

@Torkel
Excellent ta, does make me wonder if Os...

2008-11-25T22:18:00.000+01:00

@Torkel
Excellent ta, does make me wonder if Oslo is actually going to make much difference within enterprise development. Be interested to see how things take shape.

@Colin,

It all dependends, the sentence yo...

2008-11-25T20:33:00.000+01:00

@Colin,

It all dependends, the sentence you had there "when fee_amount > 300 and owning_account_holders_balance > 5000:"

It would be quite simple to define a grammar for, but what of more complex conditions, with grouping or / and boolean expressions, it can kind of quickly become very complex.

If there is conditional / flow logic I feel a internal DSL makes much more sense as you get so much for free when you do a internal DSL.

Quick question now you've used Oslo a good bit...

2008-11-25T19:36:00.000+01:00

Quick question now you've used Oslo a good bit, how easy would it be to define the following in Oslo and then map it down to a domain model:

when fee_amount > 300 and owning_account_holders_balance > 5000:
....

This is utter nonsense but gut feeling wise how practical would such a DSL be with Oslo?

Great! However, as you mention, it's probably a bi...

2008-11-22T19:07:00.000+01:00

Great! However, as you mention, it's probably a bit verbose. Do you really need the "the" word? I don't think "click the link with the text" is more readable to a domain expert then "click link with text". You should check out Dave Thomas' The 'Language' in Domain-Specific Language Doesn't Mean English (or French, or Japanese, or ...) if you haven't already.

Just remove that file from the solution, it is not...

2008-11-21T07:29:00.000+01:00

Just remove that file from the solution, it is not need anymore. I most have removed just before I made the zip without saving the solution.

Thanks for putting these together. I compile and g...

2008-11-21T03:22:00.000+01:00

Thanks for putting these together. I compile and get that this class cannot be found MAstDeserializer.

I've worked as .net developer in a QA team a few y...

2008-11-20T10:55:00.000+01:00

I've worked as .net developer in a QA team a few years ago. We had also testers whos'e jobs was to click all day through the features, every release. At that time i didn't know about DSL but i thought how wonderfull would be to have some sort of language with only few commands, easy to learn for them, to use it to write tests.

This is a great example. I'll play with it.

Dan

Pretty nice language, I like it!

Open sourc...

2008-11-20T07:09:00.000+01:00

Pretty nice language, I like it!

Open source project?