Re: [webmin-devel] module development and testing

On 11/Oct/2013 07:27 Chris Cooper <[email protected]> wrote ..
> Hi,
> 
> We're currently looking into writing a webmin module for configuring a
> proprietary application on our appliance platform (currently targeting
> Turnkey Linux which includes webmin by default).
> 
> I have found the development wiki which has all kinds of useful
> information, but I can find nothing on testing.
> 
> I am interested in how we can unit test (if that is even possible) our
> module. What are the testing best practices? Is there a test harness we can
> make use of?

Hi Chris,

There isn't any testing framework built into Webmin. However, for some
large modules (Virtualmin and Cloudmin) I have implemented tests by
writing a script that calls the command-line API for the module, and 
verifies the output. However, this requires that your module actually
have a shell API, which can be a lot of work to develop (but is useful
for other purposes).

 - Jamie

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