...Then I've effectively created a class. But it seems a bit around the houses to me...
ok, see your point now, thanks.
Don't close the door on scripting stuff too soon though, there's a lot happening with Groovy [1] (not to mention LOAF;-) these days, even though it is very new it looks very interesting for writing test cases.
-Bertrand
[1] http://groovy.codehaus.org