Hi, On Wed, Dec 18, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > Hello all! > > [First of all this question isn't only HAProxy specific, but can be > extended to any HTTP server (including Apache, Nginx, and any other > web application out there); however I think it is especially > important for HAProxy given how many HTTP-routing / mangling > capabilities it has.] > > I have a quite complex HAProxy configuration and I want to make sure > that while changing some ACL's and rules I don't break something else. > > Therefore I set out to find a tool that allows me to "unit test" an > HTTP server (thus including HAProxy). And to my surprise I didn't > find one... Obviously there are many "framework" unit test platforms > out-there, each tailored for the underlying framework, such as Django, > Flask, Rails, Spring, Go-lang, etc.; however nothing "generic" that > can test a web server by plain HTTP requests. > > > So my question to the HAProxy community is if anyone knows / uses a > generic HTTP unit testing framework. > > (I have already written a few custom Bash scripts that given an URL > create a file on disk, and given it resides in a Git repository, I can > easily `git diff ./tests/responses` to see if anything changed, but > this is too "barbaric"...) :)
Have you looked into varnishtest(vtest) ? There're examples in haproxy source reg-tests directory. -Jarno -- Jarno Huuskonen
