Re: regression suite

[Doug MacEachern <do...@opengroup.org>]

Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org> wrote:

> I would love to have a regression test suite for apache.  Many things are
> hard to test, but there's enough that are "easy" to test that it'd be
> worthwhile.  For example many aspects of configuration are easy to test. 
> So are many aspects of protocol support.  It's just hard testing the
> reliability and loading aspects of the code -- it's hard to force signals
> to occur at the wrong time, and buffers to fill up, and so on. 
> 
> I mention it in case someone (new or old) is sadistic and wants a pet
> project.
> 
> ideally I'd like to be able to:
> 
> cvs checkout apache-regress
> cd apache-regress
> make test-protocol test-config HTTPD=/path/to/httpd/to/test
> 
> I can dream ... :)

mod_perl has something like this.  'make test' will fire up the
freshly built httpd and uses libwww-perl to beat on it.  It could be 
extended to beat on more areas of apache, no promises, but I might
just do that in a week or four.

-Doug

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