Re: UI Regression Testing

2002-01-26 Thread Gunther Birznieks
From the description of your scenario, it sounds like you have a long product life cycle etc. I think your testing, especially regression testing and the amount of effort you put into it makes a lot of sense because your software is a long-term investment possibly even a product. I think

Re: UI Regression Testing

2002-01-26 Thread Rob Nagler
Hi Craig, Have you ever heard of the hw verification tool Specman Elite by Verisity (www.verisity.com)? No, but it looks interesting. It would be good to have something like this for unit tests. I haven't had very good experience with automated acceptance testing, however. The software

Re: UI Regression Testing

2002-01-26 Thread Rob Nagler
Perrin Harkins writes: But what about the actual data? In order to test my $product-name() method, I need to know what the product name is in the database. That's the hard part: writing the big test data script to run every time you want to run a test (and probably losing whatever data you

Re: UI Regression Testing

2002-01-26 Thread Rob Nagler
Gunther Birznieks writes: From the description of your scenario, it sounds like you have a long product life cycle etc. We release weekly. We release to test multiple times a day. We code freeze the test system over the weekend. We run all weekly jobs on test during the day on Sat, and

Re: performance coding project? (was: Re: When to cache)

2002-01-26 Thread Perrin Harkins
It all depends on what kind of application do you have. If you code is CPU-bound these seemingly insignificant optimizations can have a very significant influence on the overall service performance. Do such beasts really exist? I mean, I guess they must, but I've never seen a mod_perl

Re: performance coding project? (was: Re: When to cache)

2002-01-26 Thread Ed Grimm
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Perrin Harkins wrote: It all depends on what kind of application do you have. If you code is CPU-bound these seemingly insignificant optimizations can have a very significant influence on the overall service performance. Do such beasts really exist? I mean, I guess

Re: performance coding project? (was: Re: When to cache)

2002-01-26 Thread Sam Tregar
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Perrin Harkins wrote: It all depends on what kind of application do you have. If you code is CPU-bound these seemingly insignificant optimizations can have a very significant influence on the overall service performance. Do such beasts really exist? I mean, I guess

DataBreeze for MySQL/ModPerl/Apache

2002-01-26 Thread Joe Junkin
We have finally completed our initial public version of the DataBreeze Web database system. It runs on Linux (or unix), Apache, Perl, ModPerl and MySQL. DataBreeze is written entirely in Perl and utilizes ModPerl within Apache to speed performance. Feedback from the Perl/ModPerl/Apache community

Strange behavoir with an ASP application

2002-01-26 Thread Marcos . Nobre
I have added lines bellow, in my Vhosts.conf file NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1 VirtualHost 127.0.0.1 ServerName alliance DocumentRoot /var/www/html/alliance Files ~ (\.asp) SetHandler perl-script PerlModule Apache::ASP PerlHandlerApache::ASP PerlSetVar

Re: performance coding project? (was: Re: When to cache)

2002-01-26 Thread Milo Hyson
On Saturday 26 January 2002 03:40 pm, Sam Tregar wrote: Think search engines. Once you've figured out how to get your search database to fit in memory (or devised a cachin strategy to get the important parts there) you're essentially looking at a CPU-bound problem. These days the best

Re: Strange behavoir with an ASP application

2002-01-26 Thread Joshua Chamas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Syntax error on line 51 of /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf : Invalid command 'PerlModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The Files directive was suggested by a Apache-Asp config information over its

Re: performance coding project? (was: Re: When to cache)

2002-01-26 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: Back to your idea: you're obviously interested in the low-level optimization stuff, so of course you should go ahead with it. I don't think it needs to be a separate project, but improvements to the performance section of the guide are always a good idea. It has to

Re: UI Regression Testing

2002-01-26 Thread Stas Bekman
Rob Nagler wrote: FWIW, we are very happy with our unit test structure. It has evolved over many years, and many different languages. I've appended a simple example, because it is quite different than most of the unit testing frameworks out there. It uses the XP philosophy of once and

Re: UI Regression Testing

2002-01-26 Thread Rob Nagler
Have you considered talking about Testing at OSC this summer? Mischael Schwern's talk was a great success last summer. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll think about it, and see what I can do. Also writing things down as a doc explaining how things work, with some light examples, to add to