monitoring web application behaviour with cucumber-nagios

Monitoring web applicationbehaviour with

cucumber-nagiosLindsay Holmwood <lindsay@holmwood.id.au>

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Feature: google.com.au It should be up And I should be able to search for things

Scenario: Searching for things When I visit "http://www.google.com" And I fill in "q" with "wikipedia" And I press "Google Search" Then I should see "www.wikipedia.org"

# features/google.com.au/search.feature

--format pretty

$ bin/cucumber --require bin/common.rb \ --require features/ \ features/google.com.au/search.feature

--format pretty

Feature: google.com.au It should be up And I should be able to search for things Scenario: Searching for things When I visit "http://www.google.com" And I fill in "q" with "wikipedia" And I press "Google Search" Then I should see "www.wikipedia.org"

1 scenario4 steps passed

$ bin/cucumber --require bin/common.rb \ --require features/ \ features/google.com.au/search.feature

--format pretty

cucumber

cucumberwebrat

cucumberwebratmechanize

cucumberwebratmechanizenagios =>

cucumber-nagios

cucumber-nagios

$ bin/cucumber-nagios features/google.com.au/search.feature

Critical: 0, Warning: 0, 4 okay | passed=4, failed=0, total=4

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$ bin/cucumber-nagios \ features/google.com.au/search.feature

$ bin/cucumber --require bin/common.rb \ --require features/ \ --format Nagios::NagiosFormatter \ features/google.com.au/search.feature

$ bin/cucumber-nagios \ features/google.com.au/search.feature

$ bin/cucumber --require bin/common.rb \ --require features/ \ --format Nagios::NagiosFormatter \ features/google.com.au/search.feature

$ bin/cucumber-nagios \ features/google.com.au/search.feature

module Nagios class NagiosFormatter def initialize(*args) @failed = []; @passed = [] end

def step_passed(step, name, params) @passed << step end

def step_failed(step, name, params) @failed << step end

def scenario_executed(scenario) @total = @failed.size + @passed.size message = "" message += "Critical: #{@failed.size}, " message += "Warning: 0, " message += "#{@passed.size} okay" message += " | passed=#{@passed.size))}" message += ", failed=#{@failed.size))}, total=#{@total}"" puts message end endend

#!/bin/sh

dirname=$(dirname $0) feature=$1 $dirname/cucumber --require $dirname/common.rb \ --require features/ \ --format Nagios::NagiosFormatter \ $featureretval=$? if [ "$retval" -eq "1" ]; then exit 2else exit $retval fi

#!/bin/sh

dirname=$(dirname $0) feature=$1 $dirname/cucumber --require $dirname/common.rb \ --require features/ \ --format Nagios::NagiosFormatter \ $featureretval=$? if [ "$retval" -eq "1" ]; then exit 2else exit $retval fi

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Setting up

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/

# gem install auxesis-cucumber-nagios

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/

# gem install auxesis-cucumber-nagios

$ cucumber-nagios-gen project mysite.com

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/

# gem install auxesis-cucumber-nagios

$ cucumber-nagios-gen project mysite.com

woosh!

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/

# gem install auxesis-cucumber-nagios

$ cucumber-nagios-gen project mysite.com

$ cd mysite.com

woosh!

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/

# gem install auxesis-cucumber-nagios

$ cucumber-nagios-gen project mysite.com

$ cd mysite.com

$ rake deps

woosh!

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/

# gem install auxesis-cucumber-nagios

$ cucumber-nagios-gen project mysite.com

$ cd mysite.com

$ rake deps

brr!

woosh!

$ bin/cucumber-nagios-gen feature search

$ bin/cucumber-nagios-gen feature search

$ bin/cucumber-nagios features/search.feature

Quirks

Failure*IS* an option

begin

# foo

rescue

# bar

end

Multiple Scenariosper File

Critical: 1, Warning: 0, 2 okay | passed=2, failed=1, total=3Critical: 1, Warning: 0, 4 okay | passed=4, failed=1, total=5

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