twill, scotch, and figleaf are recent additions to the suite of Python-based testing tools. twill is a simple Web-scripting framework based on mechanize that lets users automate Web browsing with a simple language; scotch is a WSGI proxy server & Web traffic recorder that lets users record and replay raw WSGI/HTTP traffic and translate it into twill script; and figleaf is a code coverage recorder and analyzer that is aimed at integration with large projects where coverage.py may be less suitable. I'll briefly discuss the genesis of the tools and their architecture, and I'll spend most of the time demonstrating how to combine these tools with others in order to build automated tests for Python projects.

Outline:

1. introduction to using twill for functional web testing 2. introduction to using scotch/WSGI for web recording and playback 3. introduction to using figleaf for code coverage analysis 4. automating functional web testing in a unit test framework 5. using code coverage with unit testing to target new tests 6. instrumenting remote web sites for code coverage 7. integrating web testing with development, a demonstration 8. demonstration: automated testing of a django demo site 9. demonstration: automated testing of a cherrypy demo site 10. demonstration: automated testing of trac