[twill] Best place to get started?
Mike Gleeson
montara at sonic.net
Tue Oct 26 21:26:07 PDT 2010
+1, using the interpreter to learn twill (and the underlying components)
is both useful and a lot of fun. If you're not familiar with Python,
try http://diveintopython.org/.
- Mike
On 10/26/10 7:03 PM, Barry Hart wrote:
> This page has a link to the Scotch code:
> http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/
> <http://darcs.idyll.org/%7Et/projects/>
>
> When I used twill, I didn't write any twill scripts, everything was in
> Python. Using the Python interpreter interactively (or better yet,
> IPython) is a good way to figure things out as you go, because you can
> experiment to find how to do things without having to keep switching
> back and forth to an editor.
>
> Maybe you could write things initially in Python and then translate
> back to twill (if that's what Zenoss requires)? Just a thought, I
> haven't used this approach myself.
>
> Barry
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Mart Doyle <mdoyle at temple.edu
> <mailto:mdoyle at temple.edu>> wrote:
>
> As of this morning, I didn’t know what twill was. We are
> interested in using a monitor called Zenoss to perform some very
> basic application monitoring. Zenoss has a feature which looks
> like it lets us run twill scripts and report on the availability
> of applications. I guess the real challenge is learning how to
> write twill scripts.
>
> Does anyone have any good advice as to where to start to learn to
> develop twill scripts? I started out reading An Introduction to
> Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium by C. Brown
> <http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=C.%20Brown>,
> Gheorghe Gheorghiu
> <http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Gheorghe%20Gheorghiu>,
> and Jason Huggins
> <http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_3?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Jason%20Huggins>.
> I’ve got twill installed and I can do some VERY basic navigation
> of VERY simple web sites. For any site which is the least bit
> complicated I spend a lot of time fumbling around and am not
> really making progress. I’ve been trying to find and install the
> scotch recorder with the hopes that I could use that to record
> navigation through a browser and use that information to help me
> figure out how to navigate using twill but I haven’t had much luck
> finding scotch. Does it still exist?
>
> Any suggestions on how to get some traction developing my first
> few twill scripts to do some very basic monitoring of web
> applications?
>
> Mart Doyle
>
>
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