Author Archives: Zhe

Why you should never build your own test framework at work

2011/07/09

Last week I moved parts of home-brewed automated test framework to the robot framework. It went smoother than I thought and the new framework offered more functionalities that I was hoping to implement but didn’t for the sake of time. I wonder why I chose to write my own framework in the first place, since Robot framework came out few years ago. (probably because that test framework started as an experiment at work and was in “trial” ever since) It reminds me [...]

A simple SOAP mockup service in Python

2011/05/31

I was dealing with SOAP tests a lot last month, and WireShark is little too much for simply checking a SOAP request. So I made a little script to show (not capture) the package content. It might be helpful if one needs automated SOAP testing as well. It’s very tiny (26 lines if use without Gzip) and doesn’t depend on any other modules. Source code can be found at https://bitbucket.org/zheli/soap_echo_server/. Comments are welcome here:)

Hello world!

2011/05/31

This my first post. All English articles will be moved from http://blog.systemsthoughts.com to here in the future.