On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:57:05PM -0400, Martin Blais wrote: -> Hi -> -> I've been fiddling with Selenium recently, and I find it's a lot of -> fun to have a recorder for tests. -> -> In my current web app setup, I've been using mechanize with a lot of -> hand-written tests. Even with all the niceties of mechanize, I find -> myself still being a bit lazy on writing tests. -> -> Would it not be fun to have some tool to convert the Selenium HTML -> files recorded with the Firefox plugin into Python twill code or -> Python mechanize code, to get started on writing new test cases? -> The resulting code could be improved by hand to produce the final -> tests and to be run outside the browser without a complicated setup -> like what was shown by Titus and Grig at PyCon 2006. -> -> This script could be completely independent from Selenium. It could -> simply parse the HTML file and output twill source, or mechanize -> source code. It does not require any complex recorder setup (that's -> already taken care of by Selenium). -> -> Anyway, has anyone done that for Twill? In other words, has anyone -> written a Selenium HTML to Twill code converter? (If not I think -> I'm about to write one.)
I haven't seen one, although I've certainly thought about writing one. It would be entertaining to try a complete circle, where you take Selenium HTML, convert it into twill, and then have a twill-like language that drives Selenium Remote Control ;). --titus _______________________________________________ twill mailing list [email protected] http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/twill
