Re: [DISCUSS] high level test case automation

2013-01-24 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
Factories are a good idea. For CS entities that take a large amount of parameters, the parser could choose an exemplar of that entity. For example: Given a zone called "Advanced-with-Netscaler-Provider" This would cause the parser to choose a particular cfg file that specifies an Advanced zone wi

Re: [DISCUSS] high level test case automation

2013-01-24 Thread Prasanna Santhanam
At first I explored cucumber and saw that it was ruby based. So I veered off to find pyparsing and how to implment custom DSLs and it looked like a lot of work. Ruby lends itself well to implementing custom DSLs it seems [1]. Lettuce, I see now, does this with python and it doesn't look too hard to

Re: [DISCUSS] high level test case automation

2013-01-23 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
Gatlin: http://gatling-tool.org may also be useful…. On Jan 23, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > I am changing the subject line to make the discussion broader. > Anybody have any experience with Robot / Cucumber / etc as test automation > frameworks? > > Cucumber / Lettuce looks nic

[DISCUSS] high level test case automation

2013-01-23 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
I am changing the subject line to make the discussion broader. Anybody have any experience with Robot / Cucumber / etc as test automation frameworks? Cucumber / Lettuce looks nice for developers -- but I am not sure how it can be used for automating the same testcase with a wide variety of input v