Hi all, I wonder how httpd devs go about testing their code before it's committed -- is there a workflow that everybody's advised to follow, to try and smoke out potential breakages early? I regularly see people voting on this mailing list to make successive httpd releases, but it's not clear to me what goes into the QA for release engineering.
I've been hacking some ideas locally into the Apache httpd source code as part of a research project, and I usually test my changes by running Apache Bench or other traffic generators on it. But I'm not sure how well this compares with what Apache committers/testers do. While looking around the Internet I came across this, which seems most relevant: https://httpd.apache.org/test/ I'm not sure how up-to-date it is (e.g., the SPECWeb99 tests it references have long since been retired). Are the programs linked from that page the state-of-the-art for httpd testing? I also came across various other disparate advice on load testing of web servers. Are there any systems that httpd devs find especially useful? And finally, does httpd testing tend to be done on one or two machines (by firing a traffic generator at httpd), or are there any cluster-based testing systems that you've found to be useful for more rigorous/expansive testing? (e.g., firing traffic from various machines into an httpd instance.)0 I'm happy to compile your answers into documentation if you wish, perhaps as a refresh of https://httpd.apache.org/test/ Best, Nik
