Re: [Tsp-devel] A test campaign manager for dtest

[Frederik Deweerdt]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:59:02PM +0200, T. Decherf wrote:
> Frederik Deweerdt a écrit :
>> I've got a few questions/remarks:
>>
>> - IMHO, this should be part of the dtest distribution
>> - Would'nt YAML[1] be more flexible than XML? e.g. :
> We headed to XML because the language is well known and well structured.
> But YAML is a good choice also, we could use it as well.
>>     server_ip: [1.1.1.1]
>>     client_ip: [2.2.2.2, 3.3.3.3, 4.4.4.4]
> Yes, interesting.
>>
>>     tests:                 # Anything not being 'tests' is
>>                     # passed to the tested object as-is ...
>>     - /home/test/test1:
>>            server_ip: [5.5.5.5]     # ... unless it is overloaded
>>     - /home/test/test2:
>>     - /home/test/test3:
>> this would lessen the tests's burden of parameter parsing. We could in
>> particular avoid:
>> <parameter name="client_ip1" value="2.2.2.2"/>
>> <parameter name="client_ip2" value="2.2.2.2"/>
> Overloading would probably be convenient but wouldn't it be clearer
> to keep it simple. What kind of need would you have in doing this?
>
this kind of thing:
 dns_request: [www.yahoo.com]
 tests:
 - /home/test/test_1_dns_request:
 - /home/test/test_2_dns_request:
 - /home/test/test_3_dns_request:
 - /home/test/test_4_dns_request:
 # We know that this one has to fail
 - /home/test/test_1_dns_request:
        server_ip: [www.this-is-a-non-existant-domain.com]

Regards,
Frederik