[asterisk-users] Regression testing dialplan changes

[Rushowr]

Y'know, I was thinking about a similar idea recently, primarily because I do
a lot of work with dialplan based apps. It would be great if there was a way
to set up a _complete_ call (meaning it would include what digits to enter
when, etc) in a test and then run it against the dialplan being worked on. 

One thing that I have found is really helpful is coding your dialplans in
AEL2 and running the aelparse program with the -d option, which uses the CWD
as the base to read from. The parser tells you when something's not right
and tells you where it found the error. However this isn't helpful for
things that only take place during a call like database lookups and variable
values.

I'm interested to see the answers that come from your post, thanks for
putting it out there!

Sherwood McGowan
Consultant

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Nic Hughes
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 6:31 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-users] Regression testing dialplan changes

Hi all,

As I am starting to have stable live releases of a dialplan and development
work going on in parallel I need to have some sort of regression test in
place to ensure that no key functions of the current dialplan are broken by
a new version. Does anyone have pointers to the best way to run an automated
test on the dialplan, what I am really hoping for is something that looks
and works a bit like an nUnit type automated test but I'll take almost any
automated testing approach over the alternative - which is manual re-testing
every time we change a dialplan.

Thanks, Nic
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