Re: [cgiapp] Testing

[William McKee <suppressed>]

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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