[Chicago] HTTP server compliance test suite

[sheila miguez]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Ed Marshall <esm at logic.net> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Garrett Smith <g at rre.tt> wrote:
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>>> Does anyone know of a test suite I can run against an HTTP server to
>>> check for protocol compliance and maybe throw some common bad requests
>>> into the mix for testing?
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>> You might take a peek at some of Apache's testing software:
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>> http://httpd.apache.org/test/
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> Does anybody want to present on automated protocol compliance and server
> testing stuff at next weeks meeting (next Thursday at ITA)?
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> Personally, I am a bit more interested in automated testing RESTful web
> services. Nonetheless,  I would appreciate anything in this area.

I will ask around at work to see if anyone would like to give a talk on it.

> On a side note, the meeting is shaping up nicely and we will have a robot
> demonstration and ROS stuff. Carl will also present his solution and get all
> the answers he needs to roboticly deploy his architecture. Robotic web
> testing may be fun.
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> Best meeting ever. I will most likely send out the announcement Tuesday. All
> robots are welcome to attend.

speaking of which, people at work here use the robot testing
framework. which is written in python.

I've played a little with it and I don't enjoy writing the test files
for it, but I guess I won't knock it too much.


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sheila