Automation

THE ONLY HANDS-ON, UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO VBSCRIPT, THE WINDOWS COMMAND LINE, AND WINDOWS POWERSHELL

Windows 7 and Vista contain state-of-the-art tools for streamlining or automating virtually any system management task. If you’re a power user, administrator, or developer, these tools can help you eliminate repetitive work and manage your systems far more reliably and effectively.

Renowned Windows expert Brian Knittel brings together the practical knowledge you need to use all these tools, including VBScript and Windows Scripting Host (WSH), traditional batch files, the advanced PowerShell command console, and more. Using plenty of examples, Knittel explains how each tool works, and how to solve real-world problems with them.

You’ll master techniques ranging from accessing files to manipulating the Registry, sending automated emails to configuring new users. Knittel also provides concise, handy references to Windows 7/Vista’s command line, GUI scripting, and object-based management tools.

The only single-source guide to all leading methods of Windows scripting and automation, this book will help you get far more done–in far less time!

•    Understand Windows Scripting Host (WSH) and the modern Windows scripting environment
•    Script objects with VBScript, JScript, ActivePerl, and ActivePython
•    Read and write files, including XML and HTML files
•    Manipulate programs and shortcuts
•    Manage network, printer, and fax connections
•    Make the most of PowerShell under Windows 7 and Vista
•    Monitor and administer Windows systems with Windows Management Interface (WMI)
•    Use ADSI to control Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange, and manage users more efficiently
•    Avoid mistakes that can compromise script security
•    Use Windows’ debugging tools to test and troubleshoot scripts
•    Develop batch files that take full advantage of the command line
•    Send faxes and email messages from scripts with Windows Fax and Collaboration Data Objects (CDO)
•    Deploy your scripts throughout your organization

Brian Knittel has been a software developer for more than 30 years. He has coauthored five
titles in Que’s Special Edition Using series, covering Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, and 2000.
He is also author of Windows XP Under the Hood, and coauthor of Upgrading and Repairing Windows (with Scott Mueller).

THE ONLY HANDS-ON, UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO VBSCRIPT, THE WINDOWS COMMAND LINE, AND WINDOWS POWERSHELL

Windows 7 and Vista contain state-of-the-art tools for streamlining or automating virtually any system management task. If you’re a power user, administrator, or developer, these tools can help you eliminate repetitive work and manage your systems far more reliably and effectively.

Renowned Windows expert Brian Knittel brings together the practical knowledge you need to use all these tools, including VBScript and Windows Scripting Host (WSH), traditional batch files, the advanced PowerShell command console, and more. Using plenty of examples, Knittel explains how each tool works, and how to solve real-world problems with them.

You’ll master techniques ranging from accessing files to manipulating the Registry, sending automated emails to configuring new users. Knittel also provides concise, handy references to Windows 7/Vista’s command line, GUI scripting, and object-based management tools.

The only single-source guide to all leading methods of Windows scripting and automation, this book will help you get far more done–in far less time!

•    Understand Windows Scripting Host (WSH) and the modern Windows scripting environment
•    Script objects with VBScript, JScript, ActivePerl, and ActivePython
•    Read and write files, including XML and HTML files
•    Manipulate programs and shortcuts
•    Manage network, printer, and fax connections
•    Make the most of PowerShell under Windows 7 and Vista
•    Monitor and administer Windows systems with Windows Management Interface (WMI)
•    Use ADSI to control Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange, and manage users more efficiently
•    Avoid mistakes that can compromise script security
•    Use Windows’ debugging tools to test and troubleshoot scripts
•    Develop batch files that take full advantage of the command line
•    Send faxes and email messages from scripts with Windows Fax and Collaboration Data Objects (CDO)
•    Deploy your scripts throughout your organization

Brian Knittel has been a software developer for more than 30 years. He has coauthored five
titles in Que’s Special Edition Using series, covering Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, and 2000.
He is also author of Windows XP Under the Hood, and coauthor of Upgrading and Repairing Windows (with Scott Mueller).

Learn how to apply robust application design to your J2EE projects
There are a number of best practices you need to consider to build highly effective J2EE components and integrate them into applications. These practices include evaluating and selecting the right set of software components and services to handle the job.
In this book, Darren Broemmer supplies you with a set of best practices for J2EE development and then teaches you how to use them to construct an application architecture referred to as the reference architecture. The design and implementation of the reference architecture is based on a set of guiding principles that are used to optimize and automate J2EE development.
In addition to the author's thorough discussions of the latest technologies for J2EE implementation-including EJB 2, Jakarta Struts, Servlets, Java Server Pages, UML, design patterns, Common Business Logic Foundation components, and XML-Broemmer addresses such topics as:
* Understanding J2EE application architecture
* Building business applications with J2EE, a business object architecture, and extensible components created with design patterns
* Designing and implementing a sample banking Web application
* Integrating proven performance-engineering and optimization practices in the development process
* Using metadata-driven, configurable foundation components to automate much of the development and processing of Web-based business applications
The companion Web site contains the source code for a Common Business Logic Foundation and sample applications from the book, including a Jakarta Struts project and a banking application. Links to the Jakarta Struts frameworks and J2EE application servers such as BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere are also provided.

Learn how to apply robust application design to your J2EE projects
There are a number of best practices you need to consider to build highly effective J2EE components and integrate them into applications. These practices include evaluating and selecting the right set of software components and services to handle the job.
In this book, Darren Broemmer supplies you with a set of best practices for J2EE development and then teaches you how to use them to construct an application architecture referred to as the reference architecture. The design and implementation of the reference architecture is based on a set of guiding principles that are used to optimize and automate J2EE development.
In addition to the author's thorough discussions of the latest technologies for J2EE implementation-including EJB 2, Jakarta Struts, Servlets, Java Server Pages, UML, design patterns, Common Business Logic Foundation components, and XML-Broemmer addresses such topics as:
* Understanding J2EE application architecture
* Building business applications with J2EE, a business object architecture, and extensible components created with design patterns
* Designing and implementing a sample banking Web application
* Integrating proven performance-engineering and optimization practices in the development process
* Using metadata-driven, configurable foundation components to automate much of the development and processing of Web-based business applications
The companion Web site contains the source code for a Common Business Logic Foundation and sample applications from the book, including a Jakarta Struts project and a banking application. Links to the Jakarta Struts frameworks and J2EE application servers such as BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere are also provided.

Learn how to apply robust application design to your J2EE projects
There are a number of best practices you need to consider to build highly effective J2EE components and integrate them into applications. These practices include evaluating and selecting the right set of software components and services to handle the job.
In this book, Darren Broemmer supplies you with a set of best practices for J2EE development and then teaches you how to use them to construct an application architecture referred to as the reference architecture. The design and implementation of the reference architecture is based on a set of guiding principles that are used to optimize and automate J2EE development.
In addition to the author's thorough discussions of the latest technologies for J2EE implementation-including EJB 2, Jakarta Struts, Servlets, Java Server Pages, UML, design patterns, Common Business Logic Foundation components, and XML-Broemmer addresses such topics as:
* Understanding J2EE application architecture
* Building business applications with J2EE, a business object architecture, and extensible components created with design patterns
* Designing and implementing a sample banking Web application
* Integrating proven performance-engineering and optimization practices in the development process
* Using metadata-driven, configurable foundation components to automate much of the development and processing of Web-based business applications
The companion Web site contains the source code for a Common Business Logic Foundation and sample applications from the book, including a Jakarta Struts project and a banking application. Links to the Jakarta Struts frameworks and J2EE application servers such as BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere are also provided.

Software test engineers: here is the first book to teach you how to build and use a fully automated GUI testing tool. Simply feed the GUI component under test, get the results, and fix the bugs. While the book's examples are written in C#, you can use your preferred language for developing the testing tool and download the complete tool from Sybex.com. The sole book that covers GUI test automation using CodeDom, Reflection, and data stores, here is a perfect complement to Kanglin Lee's previous book from Sybex--Effective Software Test Automation. This is a unique product--and it works!

How to structure and build an automated testing regime that will give lasting benefits.

Software testing is vitally important in the software development process, as illustrated by the growing market for automated testing tools. However, many attempts to automate software testing are not successful.

At first glance, it seems easy to automate testing: just buy one of the popular test execution tools, record the manual tests, and play them back whenever you want to. Unfortunately, as those who tried it have discovered, it doesn't work like that in practice. Just as there is more to software design than knowing a programming language, there is more to automating testing than knowing a testing tool.

"This first comprehensive treatment of software test automation provides the equivalent of 2 or 3 years of on the job experience." James Bach, Test Design Consultant

"The most authoritative book on this subject - a 'must read' for every software testing professional." Jeffrey M. Voas, Chief Scientist, Reliable Software Technologies

"This book will teach you how to make automated testing tools useful." From the Foreword, by Brian Marick

Features:
* A detailed introduction to the principles of automated testing
* Advice on choosing and implementing software testing tools
* Explanation of why capture replay is not test automation
* Practical techniques for designing a good automated testing regime
* Detailed methods for increasing automation maturity
* Example-based illustration of ideas in practice
* Practical solutions to frequently encountered problems in test automation
* Case studies of test automation experience in a variety of organizations (including Microsoft)
* Advice from test automation experts and practitioners world-wide
* Instruction on how to make it easier to add a new automated test than to run it manually

Did you know that the U.S. loses $59.5 billion per year due to inadequate software testing? With this revolutionary book, that's about to end! Applied Software Test Automation teaches you how to build a fully automated testing tool that you can immediately use for your software development projects. Simply feed the software under test, get the test result, and fix the bugs. You can even use your preferred languages for developing the testing tool. Coverage includes: CodeDom techniques for generating test scripts; using XML and spreadsheets for test data stores; and detail review of Reflection. All source code presented in the book is derived from real-world scenarios.

This is the second edition of Hanaan Rosenthals critically-acclaimed AppleScript book. It goes the extra mile to teach you AppleScriptexplaining advanced topics without leaving you behind.

AppleScript is the high-level scripting language that resides on the Mac platform. It can be used to add functionality to the Mac operating system, automate tasks, add functions, and generally make things easier. AppleScript has always been very useful, and with Mac OS X, you can take AppleScript further than before.

This book begins with the basics like handling variables, loops, and commands. Then it proceeds with more advanced concepts like debugging, AppleScripting with databases, manipulating PDFs with SMILE, and automating media workflow. In a nutshell, this book:

• Takes you on a journey from novice to professional AppleScripter.
• Is completely comprehensive; nothing is left to the imagination.
• Is up-to-date through AppleScript 1.10/Mac OS X Tiger.

If you are a Mac user who wants to know the real meaning of having full control over your machine, get into AppleScripting. And pick up this book because it really is the only guide you need to master the art of AppleScripting!

Linux users can now control their homes remotely! Are you a Linux user who has ever wanted to turn on the lights in your house, or open and close the curtains, while away on holiday? Want to be able to play the same music in every room, controlled from your laptop or mobile phone? Do you want to do these things without an expensive off-the-shelf kit?

In Beginning Linux Home Automation, Steven Goodwin will show you how a house can be fully controlled by its occupants, all using open source software. From appliances to kettles to curtains, control your home remotely!

What you’ll learn

• Control appliances like kettles and curtains both locally and remotely.
• Find and harness data sources to provide context-aware living.
• Hack/change existing hardware/software to better fit your needs.
• Integrate various technologies into a function greater than the whole.
• Set up a home network, for both network and audio/video traffic.

Who is this book for?

This book is for amateur and professional Linux users who want to control their homes and their gadgets!