Heatmaps, iRules Style: Part2

Colin, has anyone actually tried to do unit-testing on iRules? You know, putting some sort of Junit-like test framework around the iRules interpreter?

 

 

Brainstorming with some folks at dinner after an F5-training session at Milestones, we convinced ourselves that it, in theory, ought to be possible to build a fairly simple simulator for that part of a BIG-IP that handles iRules, and allow for test data input feeds (simulating received events) and a set of assertions that would fully test any given set of iRules.

 

 

Has anybody thought about this, or am I blowing smoke? Otherwise it seems like the process of building and debugging complex iRules is basically straight out of the 1980's... (?)