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

[Mauricio]

Yes, we can use the cron, actualy, it's my solution, i made a copy of
the ZClient to my internal python, and used that to extract informations
from the web to actualize my data base and i think that, if we are
working with a great tool named zope, with visual interfaces and etc, we
nedd a solution to this problem with the same great concept, based in
classes and with a visual interface.



Michel Pelletier wrote:
> 
> 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.
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