Re: 3.0.20 regression testing
Lee <[email protected]>
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On 1/5/13, Fabian Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/4/13, Ian Silvester <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Could you not put your user.action (and any other mods) to one side and >> > test >> > a 'vanilla' install? This'd be a way to avoid the failures and get a >> > good >> > baseline test of a new release? >> >> My impression of privoxy-regression-test.pl is that it's mainly used >> for checking actions. I don't think there's any tests in there for >> pipelining, persistent connections or the various timing issues that >> can happen on the internet. > > That's more or less correct. > > While pipelining and persistent connections on the client side > can be tested to some degree by putting Polipo between > privoxy-regression-test.pl and Privoxy, the server side or even > the "various timing issues on the internet" are indeed not tested. > > Unfortunately timing issues are hard to test for I know. Someday I'll get around to building a FreeBSD box & loading ... I can't remember the name of the package that lets you insert delay/jitter/packet loss in the network. > and also not addressed > by the curl test suite very well, but at least there are a bunch of > HTTP-related tests including persistence that can also be used for proxies. That would be cool. I'll have to take another look at curl. It'd be nice to have a test suite for pipelining and persistence. > There intentionally is very little overlap with the Privoxy-specific > tests we already have as one of my goals for privoxy-regression-test.pl > was and still is not to duplicate stuff we can get elsewhere and for free. No argument there - it's usually a waste of time re-inventing the wheel Regards, Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912