[Canberra-pm] Canberra-pm Digest, Vol 63, Issue 1

[Michael Potter]

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>   1. Testing HTML::Mason web application workflows (Alex Satrapa)
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> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:11:48 +1100
> From: Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au>
> Subject: [Canberra-pm] Testing HTML::Mason web application workflows
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> Dear Mongers,
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> I'm currently playing around with HTML::Mason::Test which lets me test
> individual templates in what are effectively unit tests.
>
> My Google-fu is obviously weak, I cannot find anything about
> integration/workflow testing.
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> On one hand, I could use Test::WWW::Mechanize. The catch with this approach
> is that I'll need to set up a web server - not something I really want to do
> in my test suite since I don't want to have "install Apache"

 as a prerequisite for being able to develop the application (the developer
> might have a fondness for some other web server).
>

You may want to consider PSGI (Plack). It comes with a Perl webserver out of
the box for testing, is web-server agnostic, and is generally a
great environment to develop web apps in. There is an adapter for
HTML::Mason:
http://search.cpan.org/~abh/HTML-Mason-PSGIHandler-0.52/lib/HTML/Mason/PSGIHandler.pm


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> Under Ruby on Rails and Django, the test suites provide the ability to
> mimic HTTP calls, instead invoking the template engine directly. In the test
> suite I can instruct the test engine to fill in certain fields with certain
> values, "submit" that form to the mock HTTP service (which is just a shim
> covering the Rails or Django libraries), with no need to set up an actual
> web server launching CGI scripts or WSGI or what not.
>
> My current test suites run in the order of 15 seconds for 403 tests. I want
> to avoid network or disk operations where at all possible.
>
> Is such an environment available for testing HTML::Mason applications? I'd
> like this to be pure Perl as far as possible.
>

I believe Plack::Test allows for this when using the MockHTTP backend:
http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Plack-0.9956/lib/Plack/Test.pm


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