Hi Bill! Any news? ( Please see my previous reply ...)
Thanks 2016-01-28 5:33 GMT+03:00 William A Rowe Jr <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Alexey Melezhik <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi! I am the author of swat - https://github.com/melezhik/swat - >> perl/curl based DSL for web services test automation. >> I'd like to contribute in at apache server automated testing. Please >> take a look at _simple_ example of swat test suite for apache web >> server - https://sparrowhub.org/info/swat-apache?v=0.000004 >> >> Some swat features ( more info could be found at >> https://github.com/melezhik/swat ) which possibly could be of >> interested for you: >> >> * swat is DSL for rapid test scenarios development for various web >> services and application >> * swat is written on Perl and could be extended by Perl if you need >> something more complicated when DSL is not enough >> * swat has minimal dependencies ( mostly core perl modules plus few >> CPAN ones ) and easy to install >> * swat relies on perl prove as internal test runner and so yield test >> reports in portable TAP format >> * swat relies on curl to make http requests against tested >> application, so there is almost no limit for you - sending, saving >> cookies, complicated http headers, make html form uploads, etc >> * swat allow both simple (smoke) tests development and complicated >> integration tests - with sequential, coupled http requests, saving >> intermediate state, code reuse, etc. This is classical program API for >> complex things combined with intuitive simple DSL ( for simple and >> medium things ) >> >> * not only httpd server but other a Apache Foundation products could >> be tested with swat ( tomcat, ... ) - take a look at >> https://sparrowhub.org/ - central swat test suite repository to get >> more examples. >> >> I'd be glad to get feedback from you guys. >> >> Feel free to ask any further questions. >> >> Alexey Melezhik - the author of swat and sparrow. > > > Thanks for the pointers and your efforts. IMHO more suites are > always a benefit, not a competition between test tools. > > For a sense of what we actively review today, please do take a quick > look at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/test/framework/trunk/ > to understand the scope of the current framework. > > I personally don't care precisely which tool or framework I use, as long > as it is comprehensive. I'm looking forward to looking at what you have > put together, but wanted you to be aware that it will be a challenge to > bring the resource to bear to replicate what is being done right now > under our existing framework. > > Props and cheers, > > Bill >
