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- We can also use this as a check-list for our library of SimpleTest automated tests (or Selenium or whatever). While it takes awhile to write all of these, once they were written "in theory" no human would ever need to test those aspects again.
Jon Udell's talks on his blog about a tool that could be very interesting : http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/09/06/the-social-scripting-continuum/ It's called Coscripter (http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/coscripter/browse/about) and it's a way to describe in human readable text a series of actions you perform on a website. It can then played back inside the browser (it's a firefox extension). "CoScripter is a system for recording, automating, and sharing processes performed in a web browser such as printing photos online, requesting a vacation hold for postal mail, or checking bank account information. Instructions for processes are recorded and stored in easy-to-read text here on the CoScripter web site, so anyone can make use of them. If you are having trouble with a web-based process, check to see if someone has written a CoScript for it!" This could be used to automate Drupal testing and see the results live in the browser. Very low barrier of entry it seems. I don't know what is the licence of this firefox extension trough... Philippe