This page has a link to the Scotch code:<br><a href="http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/">http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/</a><br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>Barry<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Mart Doyle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdoyle@temple.edu">mdoyle@temple.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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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.</p>
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<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" target="_blank"><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" target="_blank"><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" target="_blank"><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?</p>
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<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?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mart Doyle</p>
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