What is the state of unit tests for Webware? I know that each kit (WebKit, MiddleKit, etc) has a Testing folder, but they don't seem to be automated unit tests. It seems to me that automated tests will be necessary for Webware to develop further, e.g. to make a 0.9 release, or to move over to this WSGI thing. Would people agree?
If they agree, does anybody have any suggestions for how to write a unit test that tests the app server? Just off the top of my head, it seems like we might have to have a test case that starts the appserver in setUp(), and then proceeds with the tests in a different thread. Or perhaps we can launch the appserver and tell it to immediately run a particular servlet that contains our tests.
That would really be an acceptance test, not a unit test. This is some of the problem with the current Webware architecture -- it's hard to separate out units for testing. It would be possible to write acceptance tests... in some ways that could be as simple as defining some carefully-crafted servlets that exercise different functionality, and slurping fixed URLs to see that they work properly. The WebKit/Testing directory has a number of servlets, but no formal expected results. And some of them are stateful, which makes it a bit more difficult; probably those servlets could just be recrafted to avoid statefulness, or to make that more predictable.
Otherwise, parts could be factored out into more decoupled modules, that would support unit testing. That's what I've tried to do with WSGI Webware; though I haven't actually made the tests yet. After a burst of programming my hands have been acting up, so I haven't made any progress on the projects for a while, and probably won't for a couple more weeks (though I'm happy to give anyone access if they want, or move the work to svn://w4py.org).
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