Does anyone know of any good open source test builders for regression/performance-testing a mod_perl app? This is the essence of what I would want such a suite to do: RECORD: -set up a proxy server to forward HTTP requests to a mod_perl'd server. -capture all GET/POST requests from the client and log them to a file, along with the server's output. The server's output would be the 'master' copy. PLAYBACK (REGRESSION): -play back the GET/POST requests and capture the output. Compare the output against the master copy. Raise an error in the log file if the two differ. PLAYBACK (LOAD): -play back the GET/POST requests according to some load scheme to see how well the application holds up under load. If this doesn't exist, I think it would be easy enough to write using LWP; I just don't want to duplicate anyone's efforts. I'd also be interested to know if anyone knows of any good webserver monitoring programs that could automatically kill spinning httpds, short of a CRON job. FYI-- I have encountered mystery spinning httpd's as well, but I have always been able to pin it down on bad/risk code or thrashing. At any rate, I still need to be able to kill spinning httpds should it come to that. cheers, Ed
