[twill] Is Twill a suitable tool to test my custom web application?

[Arun Karuppiah]

Dear Terry

Thanks for your detailed response!

I shall try out Selenium and Windmill figure out which is best for testing 
my application.

Best Regards

Arun Karuppiah

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> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:13:36 -0600
> From: Terry Peppers <peppers at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [twill] Is Twill a suitable tool to test my custom web
> application?
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> Arun -
>
>> The URL of my web application is http://66.56.54.158:8080/m2r.2. Twill
>> successfully manages to go to this web page but when I tried the 
>> "showforms"
>> command it returns nothing. This is unlike other public websites like 
>> Google
>> where the showforms command displays the components of the web form.
>
>> Please let me know if Twill is capable of testing my custom web 
>> application
>> ... if Twill currently does not have the capability for testing my custom
>> web application please suggest alternative open source tools which I can 
>> use
>> to test my web application.
>
> Twill can't do - and likely will never do JavaScript. It's more about
> HTTP and being able to intercept and render those requests and
> responses. Once JavaScript gets introduced into the equation you're
> much better off using Selenium (http://code.google.com/p/selenium/). I
> know that the Python bindings for Selenium 2 (which is Selenium plus
> WebDriver) were close to being complete and that Jason Huggins' was
> planning on trying to finish them this week - but the Selenium project
> is a solid place to start.
>
>
Another tool that you might have interest in is Windmill
(http://www.getwindmill.com/) - haven't played around with it myself,
but it might be an option.

> Hope that helps.
>
> - t.
>
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