I've been trying out WebDriver, so far sticking to the HtmlUnit
 driver.  One of the things I've noticed is that if I have a test that
 issues a get then asserts based on the page title, and I fail to
 startup the server, the page title assertion fails (e.g. expected "My
 Website", but got "").
 It seems like more explicit detection of "Whoops, I couldn't even
 connect to the server" would be more direct and useful; it seems
 likely that could be implemented in all driver implementations.
 
  - Geoffrey