By atul (7. December 2006, 08:03:41)
Re: One idea about Regression testing
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One other idea is to use FitNesse ( www.fitnesse.org ) …

— cheers atul

atul wrote:

This is loosely based on the approach given in Practice Of Programming…

1. Let us capture a packet and dump it in as XML/text file

( this is a one time step ) — Generating packet fields with random numbers is also a very good idea…
2. Now read this file and construct the packet

3. Pass the packet thru the system and capture it back as a text/XML file

4. Compare this file with the one we have …

5. If the differ, we broke something

Do 2 to 5 for various files….

What do you all think?
— cheerio atul

Would you like to post a relpy?


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By atul (6. December 2006, 15:30:15)
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By Peter Dimov (7. December 2006, 10:47:28)
Re: Re: One idea about Regression testing
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Yes, Atul! We should do this kind of testing! I’ll take a look at FitNess. Even without it I think it wouldn’t be much of a problem to open some (more...)