[hunchentoot-devel] Unit testing Hunchentoot websites

[Edi Weitz]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:32:04 -0400, Slava Akhmechet <coffeemug at gmail.com> wrote:

> It looks like you've already given all the information on how to do
> that, it's just a matter of making it part of hunchentoot (assuming
> it makes sense).

I'm not yet convinced that that would make sense.  I can certainly see
the benefit of being able to easily test web applications written with
Hunchentoot, but I wonder how much of its internals Hunchentoot should
expose for this.  If you have to add a lot of code for this, it will
be hard to maintain and keep in sync with Hunchentoot, and the chance
of the test facilities behaving differently from Hunchentoot itself
will increase.

Also, I'm not sure if the test suite for a web application shouldn't
be in an image different from the web server and operate as a web
client.  That way it'll be much closer to a real-world scenarion you
want to test.  Can you point me to other web servers that provide
"hooks" for unit testing them without external clients?