From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-05-17T19:16:53+09:00
Subject: Testing XMLRPC::Servers

Hi all,

Has anybody looked at cloning XMLRPC::Server instances to run tests 
suites against?  My problem at the moment is that I've got a batch of 
tests that each need to run against a fresh XMLRPC::Server instance. 
Starting up one instance takes approximately 1.5 seconds on my computer, 
which makes running a 100+ test suite rather boring.  Cloning the 
instance before running a test has no measurable impact on the time 
taken, so I was thinking of making a clone for each test from a single 
parent instance.  However, that doesn't work because each clone after 
the first is disconnected from the network interface, and I'm not 
entirely sure how to proceed.

Now, what I'm actually trying to test isn't the network stack but rather 
the XMLRPC interface, so if anybody's got any bright ideas as to how I 
could do that without involving the server's startup and shutdown 
sequence, I'm all ears...

-- 
Alex