[Http-webtest-general] Fwd: Re: web test article

[Ilya M. <il...@ma...>]

From: Ed Fancher
To: Ilya Martynov
Subject: Re: web test article
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 16:47:48 -0300

Hi Ilya,
Sorry for the slow response, I took some vacation.
Sure, you can post a link. I started a work on a plugin version. I should
have it ready in a couple of days.

Ed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilya Martynov" <il...@ma...>
To: "Ed Fancher" <ed....@la...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: web test article


>>>>> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:57:20 -0300, "Ed Fancher"
<ed....@la...> said:

Ed> Hello,
Ed> I've written a short article on browser version testing with web tests.
I was
Ed> wondering if you would mind looking at it and giving some feedback,
Ed> improvement ideas, mistakes made, etc..

Ed>

Ed>
http://www.ethercube.net/articles/Browser%20Version%20Testing/Article.php

Hi Ed,

Interesting article!  I hope you will not mind if I post a link on it
to HTTP-WebTest mailling list.

Some comments:

Probably you it will be cleaner solution to put your code which
constructs regexps to verify HTML tags into a HTTP::WebTest
plugin. Moreover if you happen to put this code into a plugin you
might find that it is easier to just write code to parse HTML page
with real HTML parser (like HTML::Parser or XML::LibXML). In general
it is more robust approach when it comes to parsing of HTML than using
regexps. Actually I was going to do write plugin for HTTP::WebTest
which let's to do HTML tree checks via XML::LibXML.

Another note is that since you are filtering output of HTTP::WebTest
you might find that it is easier to just write your own reporting
plugin. Or you could just disable default reporting plugin and get
results of tests from HTTP::WebTest object.

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