From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T02:06:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruwiki 0.9.3

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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