Hi! This is sparrow / swat related article http://habrahabr.ru/post/272245/ written on Russian language.

Hi, this is very simple and short example, but quite expository.

install sparrow

$ sudo apt-get install curl
$ sudo cpanm Sparrow

installs nginx sparrow plugin

$ sparrow index update
$ sparrow plg install swat-nginx

setup monitored host

$ sparrow project foo create
$ sparrow check add foo nginx-server
$ sparrow check set foo nginx-server -p swat-nginx -u 127.0.0.1

and finally ... run test suite

    $ sparrow check run foo nginx-server

    # sparrow environment initialzed at /home/vagrant/sparrow
    /home/vagrant/.swat/.cache/20277/prove/00.GET.t ..
    ok 1 - GET 127.0.0.1/ succeeded
    # response saved to /home/vagrant/.swat/.cache/20277/prove/jgxseRgqg2
    ok 2 - output match '200 OK'
    ok 3 - output match /Server: nginx\/(\S+)/
    ok 4 - valid nginx version: 1.6.2
    1..4
    ok
    All tests successful.
    Files=1, Tests=4,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr  0.00 sys +  0.05 cusr  0.00 csys =   0.08 CPU)
    Result: PASS

PS

Visit https://github.com/melezhik/sparrow to know more.

Tiny but quick sparrow

Let me introduce you a sparrow - a tiny web monitoring / test tool . Tiny as project is in very alpha stage, but I hope it will grow and get mature and get used by others.

Sparrow is a console client to setup tests/monitoring infrastructure and run swat tests suites. Swat - is web test application automation framework. Sparrow provides some glue to run sparrow plugins - shareable swat tests suites.

Here is the list of some sparrow plugins created by me - https://github.com/melezhik/sparrow-hub

Swat was initially designed to radically increase and simplify web tests development. Another idea behind swat philosophy - is to create shareable tests suites could be reused by someone else with different context ( monitoring, QA, development, devops ) but in easy manner.

Recently I have posted a informal swat introduction paper with the list of swat test suites could be base for such a sparrow plugins.

If you are inspired in test automation development on perl we probably could go one direction. So swat/sparrow contributors are needed!

Possible impact:

• start using swat,sparrow and sparrow plugins
• create new sparrow plugins ( swat test suites ) - it's really easy
• contribute to sparrow - there is some TODOs here - implementing REST API, clear up documentation and my documentations typos, (--; , etc
• contribute to swat - the api is going to be stable, but I am open to new ideas as Russians say two heads are better then one (-;

--- Thanks, Alexey Melezhik ( the author of swat and sparrow )