--- Jari Worsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > morgand 01/08/13 16:10:18
>
> > <h3>(0) Rationale</h3>
> >
> > <p>Testing websites is a pain. Many regression
> tests for a website can be verified automatically,
> speeding up the quality assurance process and
> > allowing the engineers to focus on the more
> important issues. Additionally developers may want
> to
> > monitor their development, QA and production
> environment, so that they can be sure that
> everything
> > is running as they expect.</p>
> >
> > <p>Latka is an HTTP functional testing suite for
> automated QA. Latka suites are XML documents, which
> > can be written and/or modified without writing
> Java code. Latka tests can be created quickly
> > and modified easily, even by engineers without
> Java experience.</p>
> >
>
> Is this anything to do with the xmlunit project over
> at sourceforge?
Not really. It's not specifically oriented toward
_testing_ XML, although you could extend it to
validate XML. It's the test suites themselves that
are written according to an XML DTD.
> Is it a sort of "scripted" version of httpunit, also
> at sourceforge?
> (which would be good).
You might look at it that way, although it's not
literally tied to httpunit. httpunit focuses on
testing via writing JUnit tests. Latka uses a
completely different approach that doesn't require
generating code. I'd have to say that HttpUnit is
more oriented toward (duh) unit testing, while Latka
is for end-to-end functional testing for HTTP
environments.
> Do you realise that the intention of cactus is to
> cover some of these
> issues?
Cactus is for J2EE testing. I don't think there's
really a danger of overlap.
> I haven't had time to look through the code, just
> wondering if you know
> of the above.
>
> Jari
> --
> Jari Worsley
> Senior Programmer
> Hyperlink Interactive Ltd
No problem.
- Morgan
=====
Morgan Delagrange
http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs
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