ANNOUNCE: twill v0.7, scriptable Web testing

[Alex Stapleton]

This is exactly the sort of thing ive been trying to avoid  
implementing my self for ages :) I will take it for a spin and see  
how it behaves, looks great though.

On 23 May 2005, at 05:07, C. Titus Brown wrote:

> ANNOUNCING twill v0.7.
>
> twill is a simple Web scripting language built on top of Python and
> mechanize.  It's designed for automated testing of Web sites, but
> it may be useful for anybody who needs to deal with Web sites
> (with e.g. logins and cookies) in a non-interactive manner.
>
> twill is a reimplementation of Cory Dodt's PBP.
>
> A twill script looks like this:
>
>    # go to the /. login page
>    go http://slashdot.org/login.pl
>
>    # fill in the form
>    fv 1 unickname test
>    fv 1 upasswd test
>    submit
>
>    # ok, there's no such account ;). show error HTML.
>    show
>
> ---
>
> This is the first public release of twill, version 0.7.
>
> (Tagline: "It seems usable to me, but then I'm its author.")
>
> With this release, I'm looking for general feedback on usability, as
> well as suggestions on additional use cases.
>
> Download directly here:
>
>      http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.7.tar.gz
>
> Documentation is online at
>
>      http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/twill.html
>
> ---
>
> Miscellaneous details:
>
> twill is implemented in Python and uses pyparsing and mechanize.  In
> addition to the existing simple command language, twill can easily be
> extended with Python.  twill also provides a fairly simple and
> well-documented wrapper around mechanize.
>
> twill scripts can be recorded with maxq, although scripts may require
> some hand tweaking at the moment.  See the twill documentation for
> more information.
>
> twill does not understand JavaScript, I'm sorry to say.
>
> --titus, titus at caltech.edu
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