This is pretty interesting. A project I work on, Traffic Server, needs to 
improve the test infrastructure as well. In particular we need better 
integration and end-to-end tests. It feels there ought to be significant 
overlap here between ATS and HTTPD? Maybe we could pool development efforts?

Cheers,

-- Leif 

> On Jun 18, 2014, at 7:39 AM, Ben Reser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/14/14 2:34 AM, Takashi Sato wrote:
>> +1
>> 
>> How about automated test?
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/test/
> 
> Yes there should be automated testing that runs.  But sadly that test suite is
> pretty limited.  It needs a lot of work and a commitment to adding regression
> tests for bugs as we fix them.  That's not to say that running that test suite
> is worthless.
> 
> One problem in particular is that it provides a wrapper around the
> LWP::UserAgent wrapper.  That's well and fine for testing well formed 
> requests.
> But our test suite should be generating invalid requests and verifying that
> we're responding with the correct error messages.  This design drives tests
> being written towards only valid input testing.
> 
> 

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