SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
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AIX RC.Scripts
Summary: ALthough AIX is by now on version 7.3 I find these old pages so fascinating I decided to keep them. On this page I'll show you how to configure rc scripts on AIX. I'll even show you an example script. This page is for AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1.
Date: Between 2010-2013
Refactor: 21 December 2024: Checked formatting.
Implement Automatic Testing With Authentication using Selenium and PowerShell in Azure Devops Server
Summary: How to Implement Automatic Testing using Selenium and PowerShell in Azure DevOps Server pt 2
Date: Around 2020
Refactor: 29 April 2025: Checked links and formatting. Rebranded Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Azure Devops Server.
This page is a followup on Implement Automatic Testing using Selenium and PowerShell in Azure DevOps Server and will only note the differences.
Implement Automatic Testing using Selenium and PowerShell in Azure DevOps Server
Summary: How to Implement Automatic Testing using Selenium and PowerShell in Azure DevOps Server.
Date: Around 2020
Refactor: 29 April 2025: Checked links and formatting. Rebranded Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Azure Devops Server.
In this article I will use the Selenium webdriver for Firefox and Chrome in PowerShell to implement automatic testing in TFS. I will this combined with the earlier create build and release pipeline in which we deployed a website. Here we will take the necessary steps to test the website.
Used technologies:
- Selenium webdriver for Firefox and Chrome
- TFS build and release tasks
- PowerShell
Note that because we use PowerShell to do the test, the results are not considered an automatic test from the point of view from TFS. This requires a testplan, in an appropriate format. To create that you'll need Visual Studio (Code). Using PowerShell to do the same thing should be considered as a very fast and easy to deploy lightweight version of automatic testing. Possibilities are limited but should be sufficient in most cases.
Azure Devops Server Maintenance Build
Summary: How to check an isolated environment with Azure DevOps Server 2018.
Date: 27 May 2020
Refactor: 29 April 2025: Checked links and formatting. Rebranded Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Azure Devops Server.
Note that this is done on TFS Server 2018
When using TFS for deploying an isolated test environment you might have the need to maintain that environment or get some monitoring working. We have the specific case that the environment is cloned from another environment so that means that names and ip addresses are also the same. So this article shows you how to create the infrastructure and the build definition to monitor such environment.