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NimbostratusiRule testing
I am fairly new to the BigIP and iRule. I just wonder how everybody tests iRule. Is there something like a BigIP emulator so we can fully test an iRule before it is loaded to the LTM?
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Jesse_Mauntel_4Nimbostratus
NimbostratusNot sure if it's what you are looking for, but I wrote an iRule testing framework that supports TDD. Check it out and let me know what you think.
https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/built-an-f5-ltm-irule-testing-framework
- Stefan_Magnus_LI actually thought about implementing a framework similar to yours before wtiting TesTcl. It's an interesting approach, but as long as there are side effects that can not be extracted from the response (lets say cache::enable, or simulating that pool members are down), one cannot assert the correct stuff is happening. TesTcl lets you test pretty much anything - however, it doesn't do integration testing at all right now, just unit testing. It would be kinda cool to take TesTcl tests and convert them into HTTP-style requests with assertions (basically same approach as yours). One could use a switch of some kind in order to switch between modes. Have you looked at my project over at http://testcl.com ?
