                           CGI::Test 0.2.4
                 Copyright (c) 2001, Raphael Manfredi

        Current maintainer: Alexander Tokarev <tokarev@cpan.org>

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Name           DSLI  Description                                  Info
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CGI::Test      adpO  A CGI regression test framework              RAM

The CGI::Test framework is my answer to the CGI testing problem.

It is very difficult to perform testing of complex CGI scripts, which
handle multiple states and screens, and where a session involves
multiple interactions with the form.  The offline testing mode of the
CGI module reaches its limit there.

Hence CGI::Test, which acts as a "server" for CGI scripts and can run
them offline, outside of any real web server.  The framework offers
the infrastructure to analyze the HTML generated by CGI scripts, extract
the various widget information, and gives programmatic control on them.

The framework can be used to easily "test" that the various expected
widget controls are there, without necessarily interacting with the
widgets.  You also have access to the raw HTML tree if you wish to
further inspect the generation.

Two important limitations are expected to be removed "soon": the
inability to test a script in-situ, through direct HTTP requests,
meaning it is ran by the HTTP server itself, and the inability to
handle cookies.

-- Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
