I have used [STAF/STAX][1] in the past, and liked the way that information was tracked in the tests. 

![STAX Job Monitor][2]


I'm currently investigating Technologies to tie together a few tools that use XML-RPC, and am interested in recommendations of a good tracking tool, preferably with a decent API.

In the absence of this, I'd appreciate any tips on creating my own such monitoring system (I have GUI development experience, but I'm not sure how I'd model the test run) or integrating the test technologies into STAX (I know I should be able to send XML-RPC commands from jython, but I can see issues around the level of granularity in reporting).

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Having done some further research, I'm interested if anyone has any experience with [robot framework][3] - without any external input, this is where I'm currently looking at going.


  [1]: http://staf.sourceforge.net
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/1zmK1.gif
  [3]: http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/