Re: FCGI application testing

Hi,

Nice idea's but my fcgi application server is long running and needs to  
maintain state between session calls, so calling from the command line is  
unlikely to solve my problems.

I'm up for the idea of a two way socket communication with the FCGI server  
but my stress test application would have to mimic the equivalent exchange  
protocol of the FCGI server and the FCGI webserver modules.

I suspect a few technically brilliant pearls of wisdom from RobS or  
somebody with equivalent experience would be very gratefully received here.

Somebody must have suffered the same needs to build a rigorous test rig  
against an FCGI application before?


Cheers,

Michael




On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:11:00 -0400 (EDT), Steve Ferguson  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> You could write it so that it can still function as a "regular" CGI,  
> which
> isn't much work, at which point you could just feed it inputs on STDIN
> and get the results on STDOUT/STDERR by running it on the command lnie.
>
> Or you could set up your app as an external FCGI server, then just open
> sockets to it directly for testing.  Granted, this means you have to add
> your own code to deal with listening on the socket and handling requests,
> so this may be using a sledge hammer to crack a walnut.
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Michael Hartley wrote:
>
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for testing FCGI applications without
>> making HTTP calls via a web server?
>>
>> I would like to generate test plans that call the FCGI application
>> directly passing a fully formed FCGI stream to the application server  
>> and
>> reading back the output with the destination probably being a file.
>>
>> Failing the possibility of an FCGI application test mechanism, does can
>> anyone recommendations for executing reproducible test scripts against  
>> an
>> FCGI application?
>>
>> Any comments, thoughts, suggestions or radical idea's would be gladly
>> received!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Michael Hartley
>>
>>
>



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