perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Jochen,

I am not aware of any of us having tested this tool. From the 
description that you have given me, it looks very powerful and probably 
what we want. If you are going to do some testing with it, we would be 
very interested in hearing your experiences and outcomes from this testing.

Thanks,
Loukik.

Jochen Reinwand wrote:
> 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
>
>