ew Puffin Home Page Launches!
Welcome to the new Puffin Automation Framework homepage. Take a look around and drop me a note if you have any questions.
As it's name implies, Puffin allows you to automate "actions." An action, in terms of Puffin, is any "high level" execution item that may require inputs, may produce outputs, and whose results may be validated for success or failure. For example, an action may involve making an HTTP request to a dynamic web page. It may involve grabbing a file's contents or even retrieving a specific email based on a keyword in the subject line. All of these are actions in the sense that they can be automated by Puffin. Puffin will manage all inputs, outputs, and validation for these actions.
If you're new to Puffin, check out the What is Puffin? link on the left.
Special thanks to Andy Makely for the cool Puffin home page design! Thank you!
9/5/2002 -- Puffin 0.9.0 Released
The Puffin Automation Framework Version 0.9.0 picks up where the original Puffin web application testing tool stopped. You can still use Puffin to do web testing (and it's even easier and more powerful than it was before). But now, you can do a great deal more!
Changes in Version 0.9:
1. Total architectural rewrite.
2. Extendable now in Python.
3. Not backwards compatible.
4. More flexibility in plan.xml files (repeats, etc).
5. Great new reporting features (HTML/XML).
6. Better failed task alerting (email, file log, etc).
Caveats:
1. 0.9 is a *HUGE* change from previous versions (i.e. not backwards compatible).
2. The old Puffin docs are out of date (though still useful).
3. More docs are on their way -- I promise.
Thanks:
1. Brian Norman. Tirelessly helping me server the GNU/Linux and UNIX communities.
2. Bryan Richard. HTML help. General support.
3. Ernie Hershey. For the demo app, etc.
4. Many thers!
And, as always, contact me immediately should you run into any problems.
Keyton Weissinger