Re: Tests fail under load

2007-03-28 Thread David Cantrell
Michael G Schwern wrote: Another route is to go the "lite" software route. Instead of testing with Apache and PostgreSQL, test with HTTP::Server::Simple and SQLite. Easier to install and configure. The downside is you're not testing against your real production environment so something still

Re: Tests fail under load

2007-03-28 Thread Eric Hacker
On 3/27/07, Kirrily Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem is that all the developer sandbox websites run on one server that's groaning under the strain. It's in the process of being replaced but we're not there yet. The upshot of this is that on a good day, the web tests take ages to ru

Re: Tests fail under load

2007-03-27 Thread Adrian Howard
On 28 Mar 2007, at 01:46, Kirrily Robert wrote: [snip] Any suggestions for how to work around this? All I've got so far is the idea of splitting out the web tests into another directory, and treating them as "functional tests" that developers would typically run less often than the unit tes

Re: Tests fail under load

2007-03-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
Kirrily Robert wrote: > We've got a situation where we have a suite of tests for a web app. It > starts of testing the lib/ and whatnot, but eventually gets to the point > where it uses Test::WWW::Mechanize to go fetch stuff from the > developer's sandbox website and do a sanity check on the web a

Tests fail under load

2007-03-27 Thread Kirrily Robert
We've got a situation where we have a suite of tests for a web app. It starts of testing the lib/ and whatnot, but eventually gets to the point where it uses Test::WWW::Mechanize to go fetch stuff from the developer's sandbox website and do a sanity check on the web application itself. The pro