From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-07-15T11:35:25+09:00
Subject: Has anyone combined Test::Unit with CGI?

Doing some Test::Unit work on my CGI scripts, I wondered if anyone
had done any work combining Test::Unit with CGI?

Specifically, I'm thinking:

Create your Test::Unit test case file.  Just as it auto-magically
runs the test runner by simply requiring 'test/unit' and defining
a class that inherits from Test::Unit::TestCase, I'm thinking if
you require 'cgi' -- well, if a class named "CGI" is defined -- that
the Test::Unit test runner generates its output as a HTML
document.

Perhaps this is too magical: if your testing a CGI script, it'll
have a CGI class defined and you may not want the output in HTML.
So, maybe defining a flag would be necessary.

I'm just thinking of an easy way of turning a Test::Unit test
case (or suite) into something that can be published to the web
... or, in my case, run the test cases as a CGI script -- each hit
to the CGI runs the test cases and sends the results as HTML
back to the browser.

If anyone has already _done_ this, please speak up!  I'd love to
use whatever you've got.  Otherwise, I'm going to start working
on this now.

-- Dossy

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Dossy Shiobara                       mail: dossy@panoptic.com 
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