Hi everybody, I just finished unit-testing a couple of tightly related modules and it's now time to test them together to a) check if they do talk to each other in the ways they should, b) check how fast they can talk to each other. The problem? Well, the problem is that potentially they can have some pretty varied conversations!! There are a lot of different messages that they can exchange, from simple question-answer messages to more complex [initial request, confirmation requested, confirmation sent, final response, public announce] sequences of messages. All this in a one-to-many context, that is one module is effectively a server and can be connected to zero to N clients.
Right now I do not have a particularly cohesive, consistent approach to this type of testing. In short, I've never done it before. I'll start with some simple tests, i.e. adding and removing clients and sending some simple sequences of messages, maybe pushing up the number of clients to see how much gets done in, say, a second. But it feels fairly "unscientific". =) I've already googled "integration testing" and I'm in the process of reading a variety of articles. Is there any one that the people of the python community would like to recommend? Manu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
