[TIP] system testing with Python
Alfredo Deza
alfredo at deza.pe
Sun Jan 26 10:43:39 PST 2014
I am searching for something in Python that will help in system testing. That is, run a command (or a few of them) and allow
assertions on output or on exit status.
I’m well aware though that I can do a few calls to subprocess and then inspect stdout/stderr for a match or check the exit status
with that same object, but I was wondering if there is something out there that might help here.
The use case is for tests that are done on a storage cluster, so several machines are brought up and a few commands are sent to the cluster with certain expectations, although most of the time we are looking for a non-zero exit status.
I love py.test, so a plugin for it would be nice, although I wouldn’t mind looking at other things that might help with this kind of testing.
Any ideas or example would be great!
Thanks,
Alfredo
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