Automatic Testing with Perl

Gabor Szabo

Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 PTI Ltd. Perl Training Israel, http://www.pti.co.il/

Table of Contents
1. About Perl Training Israel
2. Introduction
2.1. Self Introduction - Who am I ?
2.2. Self Introduction - Who are you ?
3. Preface
3.1. Objectives
3.2. Plan of the seminar
4. Manual testing
4.1. Manual testing
4.2. Web site testing
4.3. CLI testing
4.4. Database testing
4.5. GUI testing
5. Basic Testing Framework in Perl
5.1. Testing a simple command line tool
5.2. Calculator test
5.3. Error !
5.4. Calculator test with expected results
5.5. More difficult output
5.6. Print only ok/not ok
5.7. Write the ok function
5.8. Introducing Test::Simple
5.9. Add names to the tests
5.10. Enlarge our test suit
5.11. Load Test::Simple at run time
5.12. Forget about your "plan", use "no_plan"
5.13. Put the test cases in an external file
5.14. Harness
5.15. Move external call into function
5.16. Exercises: MyCalc
5.17. Solution: MyCalc
5.18. Test::Simple
6. Test::More
6.1. Moving over to Test::More
6.2. Test::More ok( trueness, name);
6.3. Test::More is( value, expected_value, name);
6.4. diag(just_a_message );
6.5. like(value, qr/expected regex/, name);
6.6. cmp_ok( this, op, that, name);
6.7. is_deeply( complex_structure, expected_complex structure, name);
6.8. TODO
6.9. TODO with Harness
6.10. Platform dependent tests
6.11. SKIP some tests
6.12. My own test functions
6.13. My own test functions - improved
6.14. Create a test module
6.15. Test::Builder
6.16. Number of tests
6.17. Early Abnormal Exit
6.18. Less than planned tests - Early Normal Exit
6.19. More tests than planned
6.20. Multiply
6.21. Error in the test
6.22. Multiply - fixed
6.23. Multiple expected values
6.24. Exercises
7. Command line application
7.1. bc - An arbitrary precision calculator language
7.2. Normal operation
7.3. Expect.pm
7.4. Simple computation - adding two values
7.5. Results
7.6. Simple computation - separate send commands
7.7. Simple computation - is it really working ?
7.8. Results
7.9. Reduce output
7.10. Output
7.11. More than one test
7.12. Output
7.13. External test file
7.14. Random regression tests
7.15. Random and regression testing
7.16. Random and regression testing - slight improvement
7.17. Results
7.18. Recording session
7.19. Capturing both STDOUT and STDERR
7.20. Capturing both STDOUT and STDERR manually
7.21. Capturing both STDOUT and STDERR using IPC::Run3
8. Networking devices
8.1. Introduction - pick the right abstraction level
8.2. Socket level programming using Socket.pm
8.3. Socket level programming using IO::Socket
8.4. Newline
8.5. Net::Telnet
8.6. Net::Telnet for HTTP
8.7. Net::Telnet configure VLAN
8.8. ftp using Net::FTP
8.9. ssh using Net::SSH
8.10. LWP::Simple
8.11. LWP
8.12. WWW::Mechanize
8.13. WWW::GMail
8.14. Exercise: CNN Developing story
8.15. Exercise: Search on Financial Times
8.16. Exercise: Compare exchange rates
8.17. Telnet to Unix machines
9. Servers
9.1. Net::Server
9.2. Skeleton Server
9.3. Simple Echo Server
9.4. Echo Server
9.5. Complex network servers
10. Command Line Interface
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Connect to the device
10.3. Reduce timeout
10.4. Exercise: Telnet
10.5. Our test script
11. Testing networking devices
11.1. Elements
11.2. Hardware setup
11.3. Access the administrative interface
11.4. Configure devices on all sides of our box
11.5. Run tests
11.6. Check results
11.7. Expect.pm
11.8. Other modules
11.9. Networking
11.10. Network devices
11.11. Devices connected to Serial or Parallel port
11.12. X10 protocol
12. Web Applications
12.1. What can be tested ?
12.2. Tools
12.3. Small test HTTP server
12.4. Fetching a static page
12.5. Fetching a not-existing static page
12.6. Checking good HTML
12.7. Checking bad HTML
12.8. What is this bad HTML ?
12.9. HTML::Tidy and Test::HTML::Tidy
12.10. Test using W3C validator
12.11. LWP::Simple and LWP
12.12. WWW::Mechanize
12.13. Web based Calculator
12.14. More things to test
12.15. Test page with JavaScript
13. Database access using Perl DBI
13.1. Architecture of a DBI Application
13.2. Create Sample Database
13.3. Connect to database
13.4. SELECT with one result
13.5. SELECT with more results
13.6. SELECT, prepare with placeholders
13.7. SELECT, using hashref
13.8. INSERT
13.9. Sample database
13.10. Other methods
13.11. Attributes
13.12. Error handling
13.13. Debugging (Trace levels)
14. Database access using Class::DBI
14.1. Class::DBI
14.2. INSERT using Class::DBI
14.3. SELECT using Class::DBI
14.4. MyDBI and MyUsers
List of Examples
5-1. mycalc on the command line
5-2. examples/intro/t01_calc.t
5-3. examples/intro/t01_calc.out
5-4. examples/intro/t02_calc.t
5-5. examples/intro/t02_calc.out
5-6. examples/intro/t03_calc.t
5-7. examples/intro/t03_calc.out
5-8. examples/intro/t04_calc.t
5-9. examples/intro/t04_calc.out
5-10. examples/intro/t05_calc.t
5-11. examples/intro/t05_calc.out
5-12. examples/intro/t09_calc.t
5-13. examples/intro/t09_calc.out
5-14. examples/intro/t10_calc.t
5-15. examples/intro/t10_calc.out
5-16. examples/intro/t11_calc.t
5-17. examples/intro/t12_calc.t
5-18. examples/intro/t12_calc.out
5-19. examples/intro/t13_calc.t
5-20. examples/intro/calc.txt
5-21. examples/intro/t13_calc.out
5-22. examples/harness.pl
5-23. examples/intro/t13_calc.harness.out
5-24. examples/intro/t14_calc.t
5-25. examples/intro/mycalc_test.t
6-1. examples/intro/t21_calc.t
6-2. examples/intro/t22_calc.t
6-3. examples/intro/like.t
6-4. examples/intro/cmp_ok.t
6-5. examples/intro/is_deeply.t
6-6. examples/intro/is_deeply.out
6-7. examples/intro/t23_calc.t
6-8. examples/intro/without_skip.t
6-9. examples/intro/skip.t
6-10. examples/intro/Test/MyTest.pm
6-11. examples/intro/early-abnormal-exit.t
6-12. examples/intro/early-normal-exit.t
6-13. examples/intro/too-many-tests.t
6-14. examples/intro/t24_calc.t
6-15. examples/intro/t25_calc.t
6-16. examples/intro/multiple_choice.t
7-1. examples/bc/bc1.pl
7-2. examples/bc/bc2.pl
7-3. examples/bc/bc3.pl
7-4. examples/bc/bc4.pl
7-5. examples/bc/bc5.pl
7-6. examples/bc/bc5a.pl
7-7. examples/bc/bc6.pl
7-8. examples/bc/bc7_diff.pl
7-9. examples/expect/record.pl
7-10. examples/io/capture.pl
7-11. examples/io/capture_ipc.pl
8-1. examples/network/socket.pl
8-2. examples/network/io_socket.pl
8-3. examples/telnet/telnet.pl
8-4. examples/telnet/telnet_http.pl
8-5. examples/telnet/configure_vlan.pl
8-6. examples/network/upload.pl
8-7. examples/network/ssh.pl
8-8. examples/network/lwp_simple.pl
8-9. examples/network/lwp.pl
8-10. examples/network/mechanize.pl
8-11. examples/network/gmail.pl
9-1. examples/server/skeleton_server.pl
9-2. examples/server/lib/SkeletonServer.pm
9-3. examples/server/simple_echo_server.pl
9-4. examples/server/lib/SimpleEchoServer.pm
9-5. examples/server/echo_server.pl
9-6. examples/server/lib/EchoServer.pm
10-1. examples/cli/cli_01.pl
10-2. examples/cli/cli_02.pl
10-3. examples/cli/cli.t
12-1. examples/www/static.t
12-2. examples/www/static_bad.t
12-3. examples/www/static_lint.t
12-4. examples/www/static_lint_bad.t
12-5. examples/www/server/html/bad.html
12-6. examples/www/static_tidy.t
12-7. examples/www/web_calc.t
13-1. examples/dbi/connect.pl
13-2. examples/dbi/select.pl
13-3. examples/dbi/select_name.pl
13-4. examples/dbi/select_with_placeholders.pl
13-5. examples/dbi/select_hashref.pl
13-6. examples/dbi/insert.pl
13-7. examples/dbi/create_sample.pl
13-8. examples/dbi/sample.sql
14-1. examples/cdbi/insert.pl
14-2. examples/cdbi/select.pl
14-3. examples/cdbi/MyDBI.pm
14-4. examples/cdbi/MyUsers.pm
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