[Zope] Idea: ZTest: Integrated Use-case based web site testing.

[Michel Pelletier]

Christopher Petrilli wrote:
> 
> > Aside: Do you really need this within Zope if you can run a ZClient
> > script with chron? While a scheduler within Zope isn't a bad idea, the
> > infrastructure -- at least on Unix and NT -- is already there.
> 
> This probably shouldn't be inside Zope, as it could be pretty CPU intensive
> on occasion.  The balance I would strike is to have an external application
> that uses ZClient to retrieve certain TYPES of objects and then works with
> them.  Then you could manage it through the web, without having to have the
> actual threads inside Zope.
> 

If someone uses this enough to hog down their machine, they they should
probably be using ZEO with any number of processes running in the
scheduler loop.  Any very serious usage is probably not very smart usage
unless you have the captal to back up the work with hardware.

I like the whole idea, actually.  I think a large number of test cases
can be solved with cron, but others can't, and in the absence of a cross
patform solution I like the idea of a standard component with a nice
management interface.

Getting back to to original idea for this whole thing is testing.  An
internal heartbeat system is not such a bad thing, in fact there is one
but I don't think it's documented anywhere, it's a hack with zdaemon
anyway.  I think this could be handy.

-Michel

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