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List:       cgiapp
Subject:    Re: [cgiapp] Testing
From:       Joel Gwynn <joelman () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-02-28 16:58:47
Message-ID: 1d4c059f05022808582c3b0be6 () mail ! gmail ! com
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HTTP::Recorder looks quite cool.


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:06:48 -0500, William McKee <william@knowmad.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 10:21:33AM -0500, Joel Gwynn wrote:
> > What do people use for automated testing of their CGI::Application apps?
> > How about testing things like user account creation forms, use menus,
> > and they myriad of options that can be selected, and things that go
> > wrong?
> 
> I've been using Apache::Test[1] for my unit and system testing for the
> past year and have been quite happy with it. There's a bit of a learning
> curve to get familiar with it but Geoff's article[2] does a good job of
> explaining the basics. He has also put together a nice skeleton[3] that
> demonstrates basic usage although it's intended purpose is for reporting
> bugs.
> 
> I used to use HTTP::WebTest (and occassionally still do) for my system
> testing. I've been eyeing the combination of HTTP::Recorder and
> WWW::Mech recently but have made no inroads there. Check out the wiki
> entries[4] on this subject as well.
> 
> William
> 
> [1] http://perl.apache.org/docs/general/testing/testing.html
> [2] http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/22/testing.html
> [3] http://perl.apache.org/docs/general/testing/testing.html#References
> [4] http://twiki.med.yale.edu/twiki2/bin/view/CGIapp/TestingCGIApplications
> 
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