Re: [Slightly OT] Understanding Software Licences

2006-07-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 08 July 2006 08:21, Adam Kennedy wrote: > > From my interpretation, what he said was "I don't care to understand > > licenses enough so I don't want to be bothere with it." Now I think this > > is a rather small-minded approach to this issue, which I think is very > > bad. Perhaps, the

Re: TAP Namespace Nonproliferation Treaty

2006-07-08 Thread Ovid
I'm perfectly comfortable with this idea, but what I'm trying to figure out then, is the namespace for my parser. It's a TAP parser, after all. Any suggestions? I see that Adam has suggested a TAPx:: namespace, but there could still be competing TAPx::Parser modules. Don't know if that would

Re: TAP Namespace Nonproliferation Treaty

2006-07-08 Thread Nik Clayton
Ovid wrote: I'm perfectly comfortable with this idea, but what I'm trying to figure > out then, is the namespace for my parser. It's a TAP parser, after all. > Any suggestions? I see that Adam has suggested a TAPx:: namespace, > but there could still be competing TAPx::Parser modules. Don't kn

Re: TAP Namespace Nonproliferation Treaty

2006-07-08 Thread Ovid
- Original Message > From: Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ovid wrote: > > I'm perfectly comfortable with this idea, but what I'm trying to figure > > out then, is the namespace for my parser. It's a TAP parser, after all. > > Any suggestions? I see that Adam has suggested a TAPx::

Re: TAP extension proposal: test attributes

2006-07-08 Thread Michael Peters
Yuval Kogman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:36:33 -0500, Scott Bolte wrote: > >> I propose using of subset of the Config::Std syntax to allow tests to >> declare attributes that are captured in Test::TAP::Model as a hash. >> That would allow the test to declare configuration information, su

Re: check if all the links on an HTML page are working (except the mailto links)

2006-07-08 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 7/6/06, Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 6, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Using Test::WWW::Mechanize 1.10 I am trying to > $w->page_links_ok(); > > on a page that has an e-mail address in it and the test fails. > > How could I tell TWM not to bother with the mailto li

Testing various HTML constructs

2006-07-08 Thread Gabor Szabo
During web testing using Test::WWW::Mechanize I can check if the current page has the correct links (by fetching all links) and if the pages has the correct forms with the correct input fields. How can I check other HTML constructs? Specifically I know there should be two tables on the page. One

Re: TAP Namespace Nonproliferation Treaty

2006-07-08 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:10:50AM -0700, Ovid wrote: > - Original Message > > From: Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > TAPxParser > > > Thought about that, but immediately discarded it. TAPx::OVID::Parser doesn't > say anything about the parser other than authorship and the latt

Re: Testing various HTML constructs

2006-07-08 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-08 18:10]: > How can I check other HTML constructs? I’d marry XML::LibXML’s HTML parsing mode into W::M so I could prod the document with XPath expressions, then I’d add some convenience methods added T::W::M. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //

Doc error in TAP.pm?

2006-07-08 Thread Ovid
Hi all, In TAP.pm, the document I'm using as my official reference for parsing TAP, I've noticed the following in the definition of "description": Any text after the test number but before a # is the description of the test point. >From my observations of test behavior, the should

Bail out! questions

2006-07-08 Thread Ovid
>From TAP.pm: -- Bail out! As an emergency measure a test script can decide that further tests are useless (e.g. missing dependencies) and testing should stop immediately. In that case the test script prints the magic words Bail out! to standard output. Any message after these words m

Re: Using Perl in QA departments

2006-07-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:12, Gabor Szabo wrote: > If anybody is interested on this list, > the slides and the examples of my 2 days course are available here: > > http://www.szabgab.com/perl_in_test_automation.html > Started reading them - they're very nice. Thanks for sharing them! One note I

TAPx::Parser 0.02

2006-07-08 Thread Ovid
Hi all, The next version of my TAP parser is at http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/downloads/TAPx-Parser-0.02.tar.gz It's still not complete, but it's a lot further along than it was. Some notes from Changes: 0.028 June, 2006 - Moved some lexer responsibility to the parser. T

Re: Any Clue about Devel::Cover Error Message "Corrupted storable file (binary v2.7) at ../../lib/Storable.pm"

2006-07-08 Thread Scott Wang
Thanks Paul! (1) Yes, we do send SIGKILL (9) to kill the parent process even the child processes are still running and our purpose is to have a clean kill from "root", so, do you think send SIGKILL (2) will be better? or, we could consider to send SIGKILL (2) to kill all the child processes before

Anyone experiencing problems with rt.cpan.org?

2006-07-08 Thread David Golden
In the last day or so, every time I go to rt.cpan.org, it seems to nearly finish loading a page and then just stalls. Deleting the cookie for it seemed to help briefly, and then it stalled again after submitting a bug report. Are others experiencing difficulty? Regards, David Golden

Re: Doc error in TAP.pm?

2006-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 7/8/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any text after the test number but before a # is the description of the test point. From my observations of test behavior, the shouldn't that be the following? Any text after the test number but before *an unescaped* # is the description of the t

Re: Testing various HTML constructs

2006-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 7/8/06, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-08 18:10]: > How can I check other HTML constructs? I'd marry XML::LibXML's HTML parsing mode into W::M so I could prod the document with XPath expressions, then I'd add some convenience methods added T

Re: Testing various HTML constructs

2006-07-08 Thread Andy Lester
On Jul 8, 2006, at 10:31 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: If your XPath parser balks at non-XHTML HTML then just run it through HTML::Tidy->clean which will convert it to XHTML. Usually. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: [Slightly OT] Understanding Software Licences

2006-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
I am declaring this topic closed on this mailing list. It has sucked down too much time and energy and generated too much heat and no light. It has nothing to do with Perl QA. Please take it somewhere else. Please do not reply to this thread with anything but the location of where you intend t

Re: Testing various HTML constructs

2006-07-08 Thread Jonathan Rockway
Andy Lester wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2006, at 10:31 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >> If your XPath parser balks at non-XHTML HTML then just run it through >> HTML::Tidy->clean which will convert it to XHTML. > > Usually. If usually isn't good enough, you can always write your own HTML converter wi