Re: 3.0.20 regression testing

Lee <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.privoxy.devel
Message-ID <CAD8GWstjkStSLyM3gPYpGYyr9rbY_Nh=E=PxHhTcrw9RE5FXqA@mail.gmail.com>
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

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