Re: [Fab-user] Testing strategies for fabfiles.

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On Nov 13, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Brett Haydon wrote:

> I initially tried to use unittest with fabric but got errors - I think 
> related to the stdout, stderr, so then I stuck my testing into a fabfile that 
> tests other fabfile functions, but that's gettting a bit unwieldy as it gets 
> bigger.
> 
> 
> Does anyone have good strategies for unittesting fabfile scripts and 
> functions?

I usually just fire up a Rackspace cloud server (@ 1.5 cents/hour i.e. 
$10/month) and beat the heck out of it.  

When it gets too wonky, I shut it down and fire up a new one.

Unit testing/mocking things like this is more work than just whacking a real 
server up, beating the heck out of it, and throwing it away when everything 
passes.

HTH,

S

Stephen F. Steiner
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