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Squish has supported a list of shared script directories that are not bound to a specific test suite since quite a long time already. This however involved setting an environment variable and starting the Squish IDE from a commandline terminal so that the environment variable has an effect on the squishrunner process.

Today we merged the support for a new view into the Squish 4 IDE which handles the list of globally shared scripts nicely. It still supports the existing environment variable (SQUISH_SCRIPT_DIR), by reading it on startup and populating the view with the listed directories. Additionally it also allows to add and remove directories from the list using the GUI. Management of the files and folders in those shared script directories is of course also possible.

Tests executed by the IDE will automatically get the necessary environment variable set so that the findFile() script command will search in the shared script directories. We also added a new menu item to make it easier to setup automated squishrunner execution or just executing it from a commandline terminal in a way that also includes the shared script directories.

So while the environment variable will stay for the squishrunner commandline executable, managing the scripts, editing them and running tests with them will be more convenient. This feature will be part of Squish 4.1 which is going to be released in a couple of months if all goes well.

Now that we have been in our new office for nearly 4 weeks we are finally sattled enough to find some time to write about it. In the last week of July we moved to nice and new offices. Due to our steady growth it got a bit too crowded in our old offices, so in spring we decided to move.

Since we moved into a new building we could get our offices set up exactly the way we wanted regarding room layout and interior. Basically we have 2-people offices for all developers since this turns out to be the most productive setup. The only exception are Harri and myself since we are on the phone a lot and it would be too disturbing sharing an office with somebody.

Since we have plenty of space (which hopefully will be filled soon – we are looking for software engineers!) we now have a nice library with a table football (foosball for the Americans set up. It’s amazing how all of us are improving our “kicker” skills

So all in all, we are really happy in our new office space. Photos will follow soon.

But now the pains: Surprisingly the move itself was rather smooth. But our telecom and internet provide screwed up biiiiiiiiig time. Our connection was supposed to get connected on July 30th. But they actually managed to not find our office building twice! You really must be blind or too stupid to read a map to not find it. Finally, after nearly two weeks we got the internet and phone connection.

The worst part is the incredibly bad customer service and that you just cannot do anything about it and are stuck in the annoying hotline.

So we really had to improvise a lot to get on-line in the first two weeks. I don’t even want to imagine what our customers would have said if we’d be off-line for a day

To get to an end: Now all is set up and working well and we enjoy our new and productive environment

This is the blog of employees of froglogic GmbH a software company based in Hamburg, Germany. We are makers of the cross-platform GUI testing tool Squish and offer consulting services related to cross-platform development and quality assurance.

This blog serves as a platform to inform our users and other interested people about the latest news about our products and company, interesting stuff we learnt about plus some irrelevant gossip. Everyone is invited to post comments and provide feedback.

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Managing directors: Harri Porten, Reginald Stadlbauer
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