Re: testing transfers in the dev environment

From: Tim Woodcock (twoodcock@baremetal.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 20:02:12 EST


That does not allow for automated testing...

If there was an account that EVERYONE could use for registering domains
in, then automation would be possible.

Has someone already suggested this?
I haven't been paying attention.

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Message received 2003-03-11 from 'Lynn W. Taylor':

> I assume that anyone with access to the test environment could register some domains for Chris to transfer....
>
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:43:52 +0000, chris@nodnol.org wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:34:57PM +0200, Doytchin Spiridonov wrote:
> >> Hello Joe,
> >>
> >> OK here are some:
> >>
> >> try.com
> >> try.net
> >> get.com
> >> get.net
> >> monitor.com
> >> car.com
> >> car.net
> >>
> >> etc!
> >>
> >> I would say any not so often used word should be already registered at
> >> the test system but not in active transfer (as people don't test so
> >> much the transfers :). So it should be easy for you to find several
> >> thousand domains to test with..
> >
> >The point isn't that I can randomly find some domains which work
> >*today*, the point is that domains are needed which provide
> >predictable results for the life of the API, or there's no point
> >writing regression tests.
> >
> >A further example: I ran out of credit in the testing environment,
> >while writing my test suite - as a result, all my scripts 'broke', and
> >I spent some fruitless time trying to 'fix' them purely as a result of
> >test data changing.
> >
> >OpenSRS seem very keen on Full Access being done properly, with their
> >RITE test and so on; they need to back this up with some useful test
> >data in the Test environment.
> >
> >
> >Chris.
>



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