perfsonar development work

[Jochen Reinwand <>]

Hi everybody,

I just came across the Open Source tool Anteater, which describes itself as 
"Ant-based functional testing framework": http://aft.sourceforge.net/

It seems to be very powerful in doing functional testing of web services 
(including SOAP). For testing you have to write ant scripts extended by 
special tags for the testing targets. I'm not very familiar with ant, but the 
anteater scripts look very simple yet powerful. You select an xml file to be 
sent to the service and can give conditions that the reply should fullfill. 
You can e.g give a Relax-ng schema the reply must validate against and you 
can do further tests on the content, like pattern matching on parts of the 
reply denoted using XPath.
It's also possible to use anteater as "testing service" to validate clients.

Has anybody taken a closer look at this tool? I'm thinking about doing some 
testing with it. If somebody knows, that anteater is not really useful, 
please inform me to prevent me from doing stupid things ;-)

regards,
Jochen

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