Kit for Chapter 14

Quality Assurance Monitoring

The test harness script (http://udell.roninhouse.com/examples/TestHarness.txt) relies on these CPAN modules:

DBI

The generic database driver

DBD

A driver for a specific datasource (e.g., DBD::ODBC )

LWP

For web-client capability

By default, test-harness is set up to exercise the authorization script (auth.asp) from Chapter 12. Its configuration is governed by a hashtable that looks like this:

%sequence =  
  (  
  '000' => 
    { 
    'Description'  =>  'No-header request fails access to docbase record', 
    'Request'      =>  'http://localhost/cgi/auth.asp?doc=1998-10-19-000001', 
    'HeaderNames'  =>  [], 
    'HeaderValues' =>  [], 
    }, 
  ... 
  '003' => 
    { 
    'Description'  =>  'Valid basic-auth user fails feed registration', 
    'Request'      =>  'http://localhost/cgi/auth.asp?doc=1998-10-19-000001', 
    'HeaderNames'  =>  ['Authorization'], 
    'HeaderValues' =>  ['Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ=='], 
    'Constructor'  => 'unRegisterAladdinForNetscape', 
    'Destructor'   => 'reRegisterAladdinForNetscape', 
    },

To configure test-harness for some other web application, rewrite this hashtable. You might prefer to swap in your own stuff, since the authorizing docbase viewer used here is a bit complex to set up. Specify one or more requests, optionally with HTTP headers and optionally with the names of Constructor and Destructor routines that prepare the environment for a test and clean up after it.

To gather baseline data, run test-harness once in baseline mode, like this:

perl test-harness baseline

Then run it in test mode, ...

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