Nathan,
Yes, you are reading me correctly
FWIW, I've exchanged some thoughts with the BSF folks (should be a Jakarta
project within two weeks), and spoke with Paul Hammant last night about
Beanshell. I think that we can make good use of those script enabling
technologies to build a test bed, and I am also thinking of authoring a
BSFMatcher and BSFMailet to allow those items to be written as scripts. I'm
going to put off the latter until after we get a chance to discuss Mailet
API v2, just because I don't know what impact the API changes will have, but
I did want to mention the idea as a "heads up" for comments.
Actually, in terms of a test bed, I think that there are two areas: one is
the external test driver, the other would be a facility for running test
scripts within James, itself, to test integrated operation internally. The
one we're focusing on right now is the external driver.
--- Noel
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Carter [mailto:nathancarter@;gmx.net]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 22:17
To: James Developers List
Subject: Re: Steps to get IMAP starting
Harmeet Bedi wrote:
> I have started thinking about writing some tests for IMAP. I was thinking
> that tests that work with other IMAP Server would be a good way to
validate
> RFC match.
Yes, but as Noel said well last week, testing real-world client
compliance and RFC compliance are somewhat separate things. I've begun
to write up some rough plans for the testing architecture that he was
talking about, and I think that a careful reading of the RFCs to produce
functional tests will give us excellent coverage for the full range of
RFC functionality. As a separate step, we will need to record scripts
of client server behavior between existing clients and existing IMAP
servers, and find a way to incorporate the peculiarities we find into
our testing infrastructure.
Noel, am I reading you right? Corrections welcome :)
-Nathan
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