[hugs]

"a sort of machine vision thing" -- You could use Sikuli or SimpleCV. I'm using OpenCV in my video game playing robot to find elements on the screen. (Of course, it's a bit of a Frankenstein to create and run.) At least it's good to know it's possible, though. But, yes, I can see why others would not want to go through this much work -- it is hard.

[tartley]

Hey. Out of interest, Jason, would you personally write a functional test that spun up a local SFTP server like I describe? As a developer who's better than average, it presumably wouldn't take you a couple of days to get that working, but even so, would you consider cheating a little and mocking out the sftp client calls? If so, would you still call it a 'functional test'?