On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:09:15PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:57:17 -0800 > Chip Camden <sterl...@camdensoftware.com> wrote: > > > However, for automating repeated tasks (as distinguished from running > > automated tests of the GUI itself), scripting a GUI is the wrong way > > to do it. It's layering on an entirely unnecessary layer of > > abstraction (the UI), and then working around it. > > This is why at least on Windows there's often a C/COM/.NET API that > allows the same level of control that the GUI provides, so that > customers can automate tasks.
It's too bad such APIs require so much more knowledge, and present so much more of a barrier to entry for automating tasks, than a simpler CLI filter's interface provides via something like the Unix pipeline. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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