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Thanks, those are some very good points. We've tried to make it easy to get started, but clearly we can do better still.

In what language are your test scripts currently?

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I have a bit of history with writing automated functional tests and testing frameworks. I've used a large number of tools, most frequently HttpUnit, custom scripts built on top of Apache's HttpClient, a Jakarta Commons subproject called Latka that sort of died on the vine (although I think it may have replaced Apache's watchdog servlet engine compatiblity test for a time), custom Ruby scripts based on Hpricot, and others.

My current project is Drupal based so I'm using a php unit testing framework called SimpleTest. I've found it pleasantly easy to work with for basic HTTP and HTML level testing but it doesn't have any JavaScript or browser-driving capablities, so I'm probably in your target market (i.e. I have unmet needs).

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