Top "Automation" questions

Automation is the process of having a computer do a repetitive task or a task that requires great precision or multiple steps, without requiring human intervention.

are there iterators and loops in puppet?

When I define(?) a resource e.g. to ensure dir structure, are there any loops available? Like that: for X …

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How to reload/refresh a web page without leaving my web development IDE?

Building Websites When I build websites I use 2 monitors. I have my development IDE on the main monitor and the …

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Automatically create an admin user when running Django's ./manage.py syncdb

My project is in early development. I frequently delete the database and run manage.py syncdb to set up my …

django automation django-syncdb
What are the shortcut to Auto-generating toString Method in Eclipse?

Is it good or bad practice auto-generating toString methods for some simple classes? I was thinking of generating something like …

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Puppeteer wait for all images to load then take screenshot

I am using Puppeteer to try to take a screenshot of a website after all images have loaded but can't …

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How to check if specific resource already exists in CloudFormation script

I am using cloudformation to create a stack which inlcudes an autoscaled ec2 instance and an S3 bucket. For the …

amazon-web-services automation conditional-statements amazon-cloudformation
Dead code detection in legacy C/C++ project

How would you go about dead code detection in C/C++ code? I have a pretty large code base to …

c++ automation static-analysis legacy-code dead-code
PHP number: decimal point visible only if needed

I'd like to know if exists some function to automatically format a number by it's decimal, so if I have: &…

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Driving a Windows GUI program from a script

I have to use a Windows simulation package to perform a repetitive task with slightly different options each time. Since …

python winapi user-interface automation gui-testing