pat eyler
12/22/2004 5:07:00 PM
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:38:49 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is with some mild embarrassment and trepidation that I release
> Ruwiki 0.9.3. The truth is that I didn't run a full suite of tests
> on the last couple of releases. My apologies to those interested.
>
> I asked for development help on a variety of different projects, but
> I am also asking for some specific help here -- if anyone can think
> of ways to add to the automated testing for Ruwiki, I would
> appreciate it.
I just had the opportunity to see a talk by Randal Schwartz about
testing web applications with WWW::Mechanize and Test::More (yeah, I
know -- ewww, that's Perl stuff), and I thought that a lot of the
ideas would be portable to Ruby.
WWW:Mechanize provides methods to programmatically interact with a
website. Creating an analog in Ruby would allow for the kind of
automated testing that you're looking for.
BTW, I've Cc:ed Andy Lester, the Perl testing guru that wrote
WWW::Mechanize. Hiya Andy!
-pate
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