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<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any good advice as to where to start to
learn to develop twill scripts? I started out reading <span
style='color:black'>An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and
Selenium by</span> <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=C.%20Brown"><span
style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>C. Brown</span></a>, <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Gheorghe%20Gheorghiu"><span
style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Gheorghe Gheorghiu</span></a>,
and <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_3?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Jason%20Huggins"><span
style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Jason Huggins</span></a>. 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?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any suggestions on how to get some traction developing my
first few twill scripts to do some very basic monitoring of web applications?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Mart Doyle<o:p></o:p></p>
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