Years back I worked on an automated test framework for small/mid-business scale cisco-clone routers that used Expect to drive the telnet CLI interface and put t

Years back I worked on an automated test framework for small/mid-business scale cisco-clone routers that used Expect to drive the telnet CLI interface and put the routers through their paces. I remember something a more senior engineer at the company told me: Expect is the best tool for when you need to get a job done the wrong way. (Using Expect was his idea, to be clear.)