On the subject, I plan to make some changes (with Don's permission) to the bootstrapper sometime over the next few weeks to better integrate the optional sourcing of automated test scripts at system startup. This is something that's been discussed a number of times over the last 6 - 12 months, but I've never quite got around to doing it. It should allow us to start commiting automated scripts to the CVS without impacting general OpenACS development.
Once the changes are done, I'll post up the details, and will also commit some more comprehensive documentation and examples of real automated test scripts (I wrote some for the news package a long time ago).
