[Owasp-input-api-developers] Testing tool/framework and development platform survey

[Christopher T. <ch...@ch...>]

Hello all,

I've been working on an automated tool for unit testing the Filters API.
The purpose of the tool is to validate that the API functions/methods
perform as expected.  Before I put much more effort into it, though, I
wanted to ask the group a few questions.

1)  Will this be helpful and/or valuable?

2)  I was planning on building the tool around Ant, a Java/XML based build
tool, and HTTPUnit, a web application unit testing tool.  You won't need to
know Java to construct test cases, just a little XML.  But for those of you
developing the ASP, Perl or PHP ports of the API, would you be annoyed about
having to install Java and Ant on your development boxes?

3)  I was planning on having the tool create .jsp, .asp., .php, etc. files
that take the specified input and run it through the Filter API
functions/methods, but this requires deploying those pages in a working web
server environment.  May I safely assume that everyone working on the
various languages will have access to such a setup?

And finally, just out of curiosity, what development platforms is everyone
using?  I use Emacs on Linux, Win98 and Win2k.  I have access to Apache
(w/Perl & PHP) on Linux, Tomcat on any platform, and IIS 5.

Chris