guys:
I recently come with a need to automate some work on a web site, basically I
need to reserve a seat for a test, but due to some reason all seats were
booked already.
chances are that new seats will be released , or someone just drop their
booked seat so it will be also available for others.
the problem here is that I can't (no one hardly can) seat in front of
computer and refresh the web page, check it and book once a seat is seen.
one day my friend reminds me that why don't use some script / automation
tools to do it? I start to seriously think of it , but it looks I don't
really know what's current the best practice tools to fullfill this task,
especially in linux.
to summary, this is the work to do:
1) login a website
this can be optional. once manually logged in, no need to exit again
2) select the exam type, location, date, etc
3) click some button to accept some agreement, etc
4) click a button to show current seats layout (date-seats table)
5) seats can be "full" or "available" text cell,
a) if full, just click the show seats button again
b) if there is any seat available at any date, click it to book it
6) there might be some other steps to identify the web page info , recognize
it and handle using if , else,
but basically, the minimum job need to be done is, once a seat is
available, send an email to notify so manual operation can continue the
rest.
interestingly through some google search I found this is exactly (maybe not)
the work description of the QA web testing...
so if expert in that field can shed some lights, I'll be really appreciate
it...
thanks in advance!
regards
ping
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