Re: Testing with Apache/mod_perl

2006-03-31 Thread Geoffrey Young
> > A-T requires me to do things differently, and it's that difference that > introduces the lack of flexibility. I had a bunch of foo written that I removed, mainly because this is the real issue, for you I guess - the idea that different is somehow bad or inflexible, that anyone who creates so

Re: Testing with Apache/mod_perl

2006-03-30 Thread Adam Kennedy
Oops, didn't reply to all... A-T is nothing if not flexible. That the _option_ to trade off speed for flexibility isn't as easy as I personally would like it to be, rather than that it doesn't address any given known scenario. really, I don't know what you're saying, but it sounds vaguely li

Re: Testing with Apache/mod_perl

2006-03-30 Thread Geoffrey Young
we should keep this on list :) Adam Kennedy wrote: > > > Geoffrey Young wrote: > >> >> Adam Kennedy wrote: >> >>> I'd also add a small warning in that Apache::Test does seem to want to >>> dominate the entire test suite (run everything from TEST) and so may not >>> be as suitable in cases where

Re: Testing with Apache/mod_perl

2006-03-30 Thread Geoffrey Young
Adam Kennedy wrote: > I'd also add a small warning in that Apache::Test does seem to want to > dominate the entire test suite (run everything from TEST) and so may not > be as suitable in cases where you have 50-500 test scripts already, and > you just want a few to work with Apache::Test and a n

Re: Testing with Apache/mod_perl

2006-03-30 Thread Adam Kennedy
I'd also add a small warning in that Apache::Test does seem to want to dominate the entire test suite (run everything from TEST) and so may not be as suitable in cases where you have 50-500 test scripts already, and you just want a few to work with Apache::Test and a normal Makefile.PL built wi

Re: Testing with Apache/mod_perl

2006-03-29 Thread Geoffrey Young
> Apache::Test looks like it might be the way to go. But it doesn't seem > to play very nicely with Test::More, that's not really true. yes, Apache-Test was based on Test.pm (for various reasons I won't get into here) but I added Test::More support and use it all the time. grep for stuff lik

Testing with Apache/mod_perl

2006-03-29 Thread Nik Clayton
Is Apache::Test the current state of the art when it comes to testing that web apps work as expected? I'm working on fleshing out the test suite for SVN::Web. I've already got tests that verify that the basic functionality works, that generated links are sane, and so on. But I've been bitte