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• simple_scan (Score:1)

  by pemungkah (3)

  We're getting a disgusting amount of functionality out of this teeny-tiny program I wrote called simple_scan. It basically lets nearly anybody write TAP-based tests vs. anything you can talk to over HTTP.

  You use test specs to tell it what you want:
http://yahoo.com/ [yahoo.com] /Yahoo!/ Y branded properly
Run through simple_scan, that generates a nice Perl test that uses Test::WWW::Simple to see if the regex matches the page. Dead simple.

  It actually turns out that a lot of what we're worried about is "is the content ther
  • Re:simple_scan (Score:1)

    by pemungkah (3)

    I should break down that test spec:
    

    1. URL to access
    2. regex to match against it
    3. • Y - match it
       • N - don't match it
       • TY - TODO, should eventually match
       • TN - TODO, should eventually not match
    4. comment
       

    
    And it's all TAP, so you can use Test::Harness to write tools to summarize. Should have lots more by CFP time.
• Re: (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  Sounds like you want something like Test::WWW::Mechanize [cpan.org], but without the Mechanize part.
• Please clarify... (Score:1)

  by pop (1583)

  What are you doing now ? Which tools are helping you (Test::WWW::Mechanize, no more XPath based tests etc...) ?
  
  By the way, were you testing the HTML page itself or the behaviour of the application generating the HTML page ?
  
  Thanks!