Re: Language requirements for server side code in the test framework (was: Review of tests upstreamed by implementors)

On Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 9:19 PM, James Graham wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Tobie Langel wrote:
> > Well, you can always fallback to writing custom code for this, can't you?
> 
> Custom code where? It isn't clear from what you said that you were 
> thinking of a server that can run custom code. But yes, I think my point 
> is that the server has to be able to run custom code on a per-test basis 
> to deal with the edge cases.
> 

I was thinking to have 80%-90% of the use cases met by a small set of simple tools (http headers, echo server, etc), and fallback to server-side code for whatever's left.

Writing server-side code should be the exception, not the norm.

--tobie

Received on Thursday, 21 March 2013 21:52:18 UTC