I was just talking with a coworker about how to build some automated tests for our webapp, and sure enough Latka does a lot of what I was thinking. I had a few other todo items I might contribute, assuming I can get my client to pay or can otherwise find the time. I thought I'd bring up the ideas first to get some feedback on whether this is going in a good or bad direction:
1. meta process for test definition generation/maintenance I'd like to define a "meta" XML file for a webapp that could declare something like "all HTML pages and JSPs" in this webapp should be tested. Then new meta process code would use that meta XML to check that the Latka test definition meets these requirements... it would the recurse through the files in a webapp and look for them in the latka test file. If there were gaps, the meta check could either a) fail with a list of pages that aren't included or (my preference) b) add them to the test file with some comments (and stop before running the latka test). By default it could just require 200 status codes for those newly spotted pages. The tester could then look at the bottom of the latka test file, and cut and paste the definitions up to suites or to more understandable places in the file, and otherwise flesh out the validations. 2. JTidy for HTML validation I would really like to be able to validate that the HTML in a site is well formed. I've tried doing it with a servlet filter, but using Latka would make much more sense. Ideally we could define the JTidy settings for a site and whether to test all by default, and let individual requests override that. 3. Better ant/junit integration I'd have to see what's already there, but as I use ant to do my builds already, I'd like to have 2 custom taskdefs that will a) do the meta checking that the latka tests are complete and b) run the latka test. Comments? Serge Knystautas Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites http://www.lokitech.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
