Steve,

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Steve Pinkham <steve.pink...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/18/2011 01:57 PM, Andres Riancho wrote:
>> List,
>>
>>     Just wanted to let you know that for the next sprints we have the
>> following ideas planned:
> <--snip->
>> - ./w3af_console -t , our integration test, will have a way of
>> exporting its information so Mr. Hudson will be able to parse it and
>> display it properly on its web user interface. This will improve the
>> quality of our code by allowing us to perform nightly builds in an
>> automated way. We already have Mr. Hudson installed and working but
>> unfortunately its not online for you to access.
>
> I assume testing depends on moth still?

Yes

>  Does it work with the released
> version, and if not how can I help get the next version of Moth out?

No, but most tests will pass if you go to the "/var/www" directory in
moth and run "sudo svn up".

> 4th quarter is my busy time, and now finally to the point when I get a
> few spare cycles ;-)
>
> Interesting behaviour when running the tests: upgraded w3af in a vm for
> testing, ran
>
> ./w3af_console -t and it tells me:
>
> Results:
> ========
> - 171 / 171 scripts have been tested.
> - 171 OK.

This is a lie! :)

> - 43 scripts don't have assert statements. This is the list of scripts
> without assert statements:
>
> Funny thing is, when trying to run one of those scripts directly, it
> tells me what is really going on:
>
> ./w3af_console -s scripts/script-archive_dot_org.w3af
> You have to install nltk.
>    - On Debian based distributions: apt-get install python-nltk    - If
> that's not working for you, please try the following:        wget
> http://pyyaml.org/download/pyyaml/PyYAML-3.09.tar.gz        tar -xzvf
> PyYAML-3.09.tar.gz        cd PyYAML-3.09        python setup.py install
>       cd ..        wget
> http://nltk.googlecode.com/files/nltk-2.0b9.tar.gz        tar -xzvf
> nltk-2.0b9.tar.gz        cd nltk-2.0b9        python setup.py install

Does the error message really looks that odd in your screen or was the
copy+paste?

> IE, when w3af is broken and fails to run any tests (and therefore
> doesn't hit any assertions at all), it marks all tests as passed.  This
> seems.. Less than ideal.

Hehehe, it is, it is. We'll fix it in a near future. Thanks for the
bug report :)
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/ticket/161214

Regards,

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-- 
Andrés Riancho
Director of Web Security at Rapid7 LLC
Founder at Bonsai Information Security
Project Leader at w3af

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