Re: [Nagios-devel] Integrating Nagios with Test Driven Development

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Integrating Nagios with Test Driven Development

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On 06/09/2011 07:56 PM, Vonnahme, Nathan wrote:
> Cool! Nagios-cucumber looks like a great tool. I knew I wasn't the
> only one thinking along those lines.
>
> You're right that Nagios isn't a Continuous Integration tool. I'm
> just thinking that functionality can suffer because of things other
> than new commits, especially on a production app. So reusing existing
> functional tests for monitoring seems like a good way to increase
> monitoring coverage.
>
> And I think sysadmins could benefit from using test tools to prove
> assertions about the environment and infrastructure underneath the
> application.
>

It's definitely not a bad idea. We use it for integration testing
on continuously updated systems. Unittests and even function tests
of a particular program isn't enough to test a ton of integrated
projects. Especially when they're spread across multiple nodes in
a Merlin network.

I agree that unittests should be run by developers immediately
though, and for that I really, really detest the TAP output.

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