Re: [webmin-devel] module development and testing

[Paul G. <pa...@ge...>]

I would definitely use the Perl testing tooling.  I wrote some test 
infrastructure for some code I wrote for a client a couple of years 
back, and I found it pretty easy & intuitive.  Example here:

https://github.com/paulgear/mail-archive/tree/next/t

Regards,
Paul

On 10/12/2013 01:23 AM, PEOPLES, MICHAEL P wrote:
> I’m no expert, but given that this written in Perl, I’d look to that
> tooling for testing procedures.
>
> Michael Peoples (mp4783)
> ...
>
> *From:*Chris Cooper [mailto:cc...@co...]
> *Sent:* Friday, October 11, 2013 10:28
> *To:* web...@li...
> *Subject:* [webmin-devel] module development and testing
>
> Hi,
>
> We're currently looking into writing a webmin module for configuring a
> proprietary application on our appliance platform (currently targeting
> Turnkey Linux which includes webmin by default).
>
> I have found the development wiki which has all kinds of useful
> information, but I can find nothing on testing.
>
> I am interested in how we can unit test (if that is even possible) our
> module. What are the testing best practices? Is there a test harness we
> can make use of?
>
> Thanks
>