Thank you very much Andy! Nah I don't have a problem anymore :) We used a self built perl environment with simultanius calls to other perl programs listening on ports and linux systems simulating simultanius user actions, like opening a file, then while it's open trying to delete it from windows etc etc.. It was pretty freaky :) and it's confidental :)) Like an abnormal constract of legs and arms of varius monsters... It wasn’t quite stable either..
My question was only out of curiosity :) Thank you for the answer! Gergely. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:20 PM To: Gergely Brautigam Cc: perl-qa@perl.org Subject: Why use Perl for testing? (was Re: My Perl QA Hackathon Wishlist) On 25 Mar 2008, at 12:41, Gergely Brautigam wrote: > One last question then I swear I will shut up :) > > Why use perl for testing? Of course all others languages are used > for testing this and that.. What excels perl to be used for testing. > Obviusly it has powerfull regex, and datahandling capabilities... > But besides that.. Why would anyone want to use perl? :) Well it obviously makes sense if you're already working in Perl ;) Apart from that, the Perl community has a highly evolved and culturally integrated attitude to testing - so even if you're not programming in Perl you may find some of the tools (both software and conceptual) useful. And of course programs can talk to each other and there's no reason that they all need to be written in Perl. For example the MediaWiki team use Test::Harness (Perl) with a PHP testing module to run their PHP tests. If you have a specific testing problem why not explain it here and we'll see if we can recommend anything? -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten
