From: Adam Keys <adam@...>
Date: 2005-08-15T12:39:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Unit testing servers

On Aug 13, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> What about trying a simple TCP client/server in this configuration,
> maybe starting with the sample/{tsvr,clnt}.rb in the ruby distribution
> modified to run in two threads. I'm using single-process multithreaded
> tests for TCP client/server code and it works well. It's easier to  
> work
> in one process with the state of the whole system before, during, and
> after tests. But I don't know what else might be going on with xmlrpc.

I'm doing something pretty similar to this.  I've got a class that  
knows how to start and stop Web Services servers (XMLRPC, SOAP,  
etc.)  in their own thread.  I start a fresh server in TestCase#setup  
and kill it in TestCase#teardown.  I riffed off the soap4r test cases  
[1].  I'd be happy to go into more detail if you'd like.

[1] http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/file/trunk/test/soap/helloworld/ 
test_helloworld.rb

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