![]() The cost aspect was important, mostly because if this is a transient piece of software then you do not want to be spending hundreds of pounds/dollars/euros on it. I experimented with a lot of automation products to enable me to easily record macros, replay them effectively, add parameters to allow me to deploy them in different scenarios without major reprogramming and be as cheap as possible. So I needed to find the time, and by taking an incremental step into recorded macro based automation, I could free up time in which to take the 2nd larger step into more complete scripted automation. This idea took hold and I thought a lot about why I wanted to use recorded Macros, it was not because I didn’t want to spend time building lovely scripts or configure software – it was because I didn’t have the time to build beautiful adaptable scripts. This was automation at it’s simplest and most pure but as a young person I had no appreciation of its uses, mostly because my job was not repetitive (not sure admitting that is a good thing □ ) This was an application which would record your mouse clicks and keystrokes into a script/macro and replay it when you wanted from a hotkey or just loading from the application. What I had forgotten and I suspect a lot of people had also forgotten about is a very simple application which has long since disappeared from Windows, Windows Recorder (I think). So I put the idea to one side in my brain and let it tickle me every now and again when something twigged – and a few weeks ago it twigged on something big time after reading this blog post – –to-busy-to-improve To be fair, these are things that have cause me issues in the past. ![]() ![]() Although when I talk to people they complain that they do not have time to automate their stuff because they have to learn a new application, develop the automation scripts and then test them. ![]() ![]() As many people know, I have a passion for automation – mostly because it provides consistency in execution which drives quality up and often shortens time scales. ![]()
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