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Automated UI Tester / Genie

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Automated UI Tester for Adobe® Action Script® is code named as Genie. Automated UI Tester is a Flash/Flex automation tool that can record user actions on a SWF file and play them back with high fidelity. With other automation tools, automating Flash applications requires instrumenting them to run inside a wrapper application; but with Genie, it just requires a configuration file and Flash Player. So with Genie, users can automate their production builds easily. Genie currently works on Windows and on Mac OS X. What you need to setup Genie: 1) Eclipse 2) Genie binary 3) Flash Debug version for IE 4) Any flash application **Genie does not require instrumentation of you flex app for getting access to flex components unlike most tools.  Limitations: Only works for Action Script 3 based flex applications.   Installation: Genie setup can be done in 5 minutes flat once the per-requisites are installed.   You will need the following prerequisites. 1.

Send mail to outlook even when the smtp server/port is blocked

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This is probably the simplest thing that an automation engineer can do: Automate using vb-script sending an email to outlook: The best way would be to create a CDO.message object like this : Set MyEmail=CreateObject("CDO.Message") MyEmail.Subject="Subject" MyEmail.From="name@domain.com" MyEmail.To="a@a.com" MyEmail.TextBody="Testing one two three." MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing")=2 'SMTP Server MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver")="smtp.server.com" 'SMTP Port MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport")=25 MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Update MyEmail.Send set MyEmail=nothing   But if you have restrictions in your org do this: Function FnSendMail(intVal)                 Set MyApp = C