Automatet Unit Testing for CGIs

dokkeldepper has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,

currently I wrote a small CGI-Application. After using Test::More & relatives quite extensively for Desktop applications I wondered if there exist a testing framework for CGI-Programs?

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Re: Automatet Unit Testing for CGIs by stark (Pilgrim) on Jan 19, 2008 at 12:49 UTC
Not really unit testing... but maybe you are looking for Test::WWW::Mechanize and related.	[reply]
Re: Automatet Unit Testing for CGIs by randyk (Parson) on Jan 19, 2008 at 15:39 UTC
If Apache is available, you can use Apache-Test for testing cgi scripts. An example is in the libapreq2 distribution - see the glue/perl/t/apreq/cgi.t file for the test itself, and glue/perl/t/conf/extra.conf.in for the needed Apache configuration directives.	[reply]
Re: Automated Unit Testing for CGIs by bobf (Monsignor) on Jan 20, 2008 at 05:32 UTC
Chapter 7 of Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook is on testing web sites. In a nutshell, it recommends the following: Test the backend using Class::DBI and your favorite suite of Test::* modules. Test the frontend using Test::WWW::Mechanize Record a session using HTTP::Recorder Validate the HTML using Test::HTML::Tidy Test Apache with Apache::Test; see also http://perl.apache.org/docs/general/testing/testing.html HTH	[reply]
Re^2: Automated Unit Testing for CGIs by dokkeldepper (Friar) on Jan 21, 2008 at 15:51 UTC
Thank you, this organized my thinking about CGI-Testing. What I miss seriously is an easy way to test parallel access, because I use a (very) small state file for global data with locking. This, of course, would be a different story	[reply]
Re: Automatet Unit Testing for CGIs by hipowls (Curate) on Jan 19, 2008 at 22:21 UTC
There may be something at Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools that you can use.	[reply]
Re: Automatet Unit Testing for CGIs by andreas1234567 (Vicar) on Jan 20, 2008 at 08:49 UTC
Selenium is a test tool for web applications. The tests are written as HTML tables and can be run directly in most modern web browsers. Selenium can be deployed on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. Apache 2.0 license. There's even a Perl interface: Test::WWW::Selenium. -- Andreas	[reply]
Re: Automatet Unit Testing for CGIs by GrandFather (Saint) on Jan 20, 2008 at 09:34 UTC
CGI::Test seems to be the regression testing tool for CGI. Caveat: I've not used it yet (but plan to in the near future) so I don't know how easy it is to use or how reliable it is. Perl is environmentally friendly - it saves trees	[reply]

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