On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 9:10 AM Jarno Huuskonen <[email protected]> wrote: > > So my question to the HAProxy community is if anyone knows / uses a > > generic HTTP unit testing framework. > > Have you looked into varnishtest(vtest) ? There're examples in haproxy source > reg-tests directory.
Interesting; for reference I'll put the relevant links bellow: https://github.com/vtest/VTest -- the actual tool used by HAProxy https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/tree/master/reg-tests https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/reference/varnishtest.html https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/reference/vtc.html#haproxy I'll have a more closer look, however at a first glance the following sticks out to me: * (as a plus) it seems to be quite competent and allows many use-cases; (even checking very low-level details such as TCP window-size;) * (as a minus) the syntax is quite awkward; therefore it will be very hard for most to write checks; * (as a minus) it can't be extended into more "application-side" testing; (i.e. what Postman does best;) * (as a minus) I think it's targeted more at testing small, individual, features, as for example I don't think it's able to generate the test cases (including URLs, headers, etc.) programatically, for example taking them from a file, etc.; Thanks for the pointer, I'll take a closer look and perhaps I'm mistaken about many of the above, Ciprian.
