[TIP] system testing with Python

[Alfredo Deza]

On Jan 26, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:

> Hi Alfredo,
> 
> On 01/26/2014 11:43 AM, Alfredo Deza wrote:
>> 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!
> 
> I've used Ian Bicking's ScriptTest before for this
> (http://pythonpaste.org/scripttest/) and found it nice enough to work
> with. It's just a bunch of conveniences around a subprocess call.
> 
This sounds very much like I was looking for! 

Thanks Carl!

> Carl
> 
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