On 07/20/2010 07:28 PM, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
On 2010-7-20 18:15, Christian Theune wrote:
At least, WRT this bug, I don't think it's a good idea to ask explicitly for bad requests to go to the application as the test layer should model real server behaviour as closely as possible. And again it wouldn't make sense anyway as you can't pass an unparsable request to the application.
I'm not sure I agree. Like everything else servers have bugs, so it can't hurt to test how your application would behave given certain server bugs.
Right. IMHO this specific bug asked for would usually mean that the server breaks and can pass anything to the application. Whatever happens: the server needs to prepare a data structure to hand over to the application. If it can't do that, then there's nothing to test what happens with the application. I guess this kind of test (what happens with the application if it receives invalid data) needs to work around server/publisher components and inject data directly to application methods. Christian -- Christian Theune · ct@gocept.com gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 0 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development