+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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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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