On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:23:45 -0500 Shane Landrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Your talking about this reminded me of a peeve I've had lately. > I need webpage testing that doesn't suck. In particular, I need > something like Inline::Webchat without its strange limitations. > I also need more abstraction. I've got a lot of Apache handlers > written in Perl which talk to databases and make web-based editing > forms. I need to do things like "okay, find each link that looks > like http://host/edit/thingy/?foo=(number)&action=(something). Now > click through all those pages and run tests on each one of them." > Hand coding all those tests could really suck, so I haven't even > tried. > > What I really want is something like the commercial web-testing > tools--- Segue Silktest and similar. Has anyone thought about > solving this problem? Recently I've been doing this with two ways: 1) Unit testing for "Model/Control" classes Exactly same with what Tony introduced in his mail. 2) Acceptance Testing with Live HTTP, DB Server We've acomplished with following tools: * shell script, to setup/teardown local database * Apache::Test module http://httpd.apache.org/test/ to fire up local httpd * LWP::UserAgent, HTTP::Request::Common, HTML::Form and other LWP and HTML-Parser families, to do actual testing Writing tests with these tools is a little messy. I think I should use HTTP::TestEngine / RoboWeb or something like that to reduce my work. But I've not given a shot to 'em. -- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
