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1. Testing HTML::Mason web application workflows (Alex Satrapa)<br>
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:11:48 +1100<br>
From: Alex Satrapa <<a href="mailto:grail@goldweb.com.au">grail@goldweb.com.au</a>><br>
Subject: [Canberra-pm] Testing HTML::Mason web application workflows<br>
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Dear Mongers,<br>
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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.<br>
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My Google-fu is obviously weak, I cannot find anything about integration/workflow testing.<br>
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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"</blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> as a prerequisite for being able to develop the application (the developer might have a fondness for some other web server).<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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:</div>
<div><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~abh/HTML-Mason-PSGIHandler-0.52/lib/HTML/Mason/PSGIHandler.pm">http://search.cpan.org/~abh/HTML-Mason-PSGIHandler-0.52/lib/HTML/Mason/PSGIHandler.pm</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Is such an environment available for testing HTML::Mason applications? I'd like this to be pure Perl as far as possible.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I believe Plack::Test allows for this when using the MockHTTP backend:</div>
<div><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Plack-0.9956/lib/Plack/Test.pm">http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Plack-0.9956/lib/Plack/Test.pm</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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