Testsuite: integrate a proper testing framework rather than using set of custom scripts

[rhusar]

e.g. use bats.

[jajik]

Just to mention, the current testsuite tries to be POSIX compliant, which bats is not (?). We might consider ShellSpec, which should be.

However, I don't know any of these, so I'll have a look and will report about it.

[rhusar]

@jajik When you have a minute, if you can look into what upstream Apache and / or it's modules use that would be interesting too. I am going to just assume it's something home brewed and not portable.

[jajik]

That's a good idea. Will do.

[jajik]

So, it turns out that httpd uses (maybe a bit surprisingly) pytest for some testing (see README.pytest). That looks interesting, although I don't like python very much. Personally, I don't think rewriting tests we have into pytest is the way to go, I would prefer just adapting them to ShellSpec/bats, but for new tests it might be an option.

[rhusar]

So, it turns out that httpd uses (maybe a bit surprisingly) pytest for some testing (see README.pytest). That looks interesting, although I don't like python very much. Personally, I don't think rewriting tests we have into pytest is the way to go, I would prefer just adapting them to ShellSpec/bats, but for new tests it might be an option.

If we are talking about preferences I would strongly to prefer to have them in Java. I am under impression that what we have now can be done in Java quite with ease. I was under impression that the rewriting of the testsuite was with the idea to be in line with httpd apache project. Anyway, I will try to kick off some more discussions.

[jfclere]

https://github.com/apache/httpd-tests is the one I contributed.

[jajik]

That looks like Perl! Definitely prefer that over Python, I'll have a look, thanks!