Re: Is Apache::TestRequest for me?

["Philip M. Gollucci" <suppressed>]

Anthony Gardner wrote:
> I'm trying to think of a way to do a test plan for a site that is 
> already well developed but is going through a structural change rather 
> than a content change.
>
> To cut a long story short, for future development we want to implement a 
> good test suite to test the html in the response. At present, they just 
> do visual tests.
>
>  From what I've seen on CPAN, Apache::Test is used to test Apache::* 
> modules (we don't write any at this time) and Apache::TestRequest is 
> looking good for me ..... but is it what I want?
>
> For example, to catch the final output from the response phase of the 
> request and then test the resulting (potentially large) html to see if 
> there is a small chunk of expected html there (i.e hiden fields).
>
> This may sound like bread 'n butter to most of you but any suggestions 
> would be greatly appreciated.
You might look at HTTP::Webtest or WWW::Mechanize

Also, httpd-serf and httpd-test from the httpd.apache.org.

Apache-Test is more for testing your PERL code -- but theres nothing
really stopping you from using it to issue requests to "handlers" then 
check the responses though I wouldn't recommend it.


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