Unit Testing

Create automated tests to insure that WeBWorK is configured and functioning properly.

• Unit testing tutorials

• • Andy Lester http://perlbuzz.com/
  • http://petdance.com/perl/automated-testing/
  • http://petdance.com/perl/use-prove-lt.pdf
  • http://petdance.com/perl/large-project-testing.pdf
  • http://petdance.com/perl/adding-testing-to-existing-projects.pdf

• Unit testing modules (Michael Schwern and Andy Lester )
  • Test::Tutorial http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Simple/lib/Test/Tutorial.pod
  • Test::Harness
  • Test::More
  • Test::Exception
  • Test::HTML::Lint
  • Test::Simple (frame work for creating test modules)
  • Test::Pod
  • Test::LongString
  • Test::WWW::Mechanize
  • Test::File (testing file attributes)
  • Test::Mail (tests programs that send and receive mail)

• (While not a perl module the Mac program Fake can be used to automate testing of a web site)

• • Apache::Test (http://perl.apache.org/docs/general/testing/testing.html)

Things to Test

Probably easy to start with

• Permissions
• Database

Manual Unit Tests

• Preview/Check_Answer/Submit_Answer Button Behavior - check these with Test::WWW::Mechanize

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