Interesting thought experiment:
- Cucumber is kick arse way of describing the behaviour of a system.
- Webrat makes interacting with websites blindingly easy.
- Nagios is the industry standard for system/network/application monitoring.
What happens if you combine the three? You get [cucumber-nagios](http://auxesis.github.com/cucumber-nagios).
cucumber-nagios takes the results of a Cucumber run and outputs them in the Nagios plugin format. What does that actually mean?
A sysadmin can describe the behaviour of a system that they manage:
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"Then they can run the feature through cucumber-nagios:
$ cucumber-nagios features/google.com.au/search.feature
Critical: 0, Warning: 0, 4 okay | value=4.000000;;;;The curious can check out the code on GitHub, and the documentation on the project website.
UPDATE: There have been a few changes to cucumber-nagios since this post. Check out these
two
posts
for more info.
