Django and Windmill Javascript testing

[mt]

Hi All,
This is a follow up to a recent thread on testing javascript in django
with qunit http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_frm/thread/e0656d72e5e863d7

We did some work at the Djangocon.eu sprint on integration testing of
Django with Windmill, which should be complementary to the qunit work,
qunit does proper unit testing, windmill is more for integration
testing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integration_testing)

I've made a quick branch to demo this, here's how to get it running:

git clone g...@github.com:mthornhill/django.git djangowindmill
cd djangowindmill/
git fetch origin windmill:windmill
git checkout windmill
virtualenv . --no-site-packages
pip install windmill
export PYTHONPATH=$PWD
cd tests/
./runtests.py --settings=test_sqlite admin_integration

dependencies are
windmill http://www.getwindmill.com/
git http://git-scm.com/
virtualenv http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
google chrome browser http://www.google.com/chrome/

You should see google chrome pop up and run through a simple test of
adding a user to the admin interface,
We've started using this on django-lfs (https://bitbucket.org/
diefenbach/django-lfs) and it works well with django-jenkins (https://
github.com/kmmbvnr/django-jenkins) when run under xvfb (http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb) for headless testing
Windmill docs are here: https://github.com/windmill/windmill/wiki/_pages

Recording of tests is achieved by
1. Start your dev server: ./manage.py runserver
2. Start windmill with your browser of choice: windmill firefox
http://localhost:8000
3. From the windmill menu start recording
4. Navigate through the test you wish to perform by clicking in
browser
5. Save your test, you will get a list of python commands that emulate
the test
6. Plug your test into your test cases: e.g. see tests/regressiontests/
admin_integration/tests.py in checkout above

Hopefully this will be of use to someone.
Thanks
Michael