Welcome to oct’s documentation!

Oct stand for Open Charge Tester, the goal of this project is to give you the basics tools for write simple tests. The tests are simple python scripts that make calls to web page or web service, submit data, login, etc... OCT will give you basics tools for easily writing your test.

This documentation will provide you basics examples for writing tests, use oct-tools, lunch tests, get results or even customize the results to fit your needs

Note that the OCT project is in early development and is not suitable for productions tests actually.

If you want to contribute you’re welcome ! Check the git, fork the project, and submit your pull requests !

The OCT module steel need many features at this point, here somme examples :

  • Full python3 support
  • New lib for replace Mechanize (based on html5lib ?)
  • Full celery integration for multi-processing
  • More generic tests in core module
  • More fancy templates
  • etc...

Basics module information

OCT is based on multi-mechanize, a library for testing website. But this module is no longer under active development and the last commit was 3 years ago.

So instead of a fork, for building OCT module we include multi-mechanize as a module, and we update it. For the moment modifications are minors and the main job of OCT module is inside the core submodules, which contains a GenericTransaction class

which provide you useful methods for writing your tests scripts.

We already have done some update on the multi-mechanize modules like :

  • update render of graphics
  • update command for new projects
  • more information in config file
  • customisable templates

But other improvements are on the way ! So stay tune on github !

How to

For each functionality, we have tried to write a how to. In that way you should be able to do everything you need with this library, even customize it and add features to it !

See the examples project page

Installation

You’ll need some linux packages for the installation, To install the required development packages of these dependencies on Linux systems, use your distribution specific installation tool, e.g. apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev

You can install the module with :

python setup.py install

Or using pip :

pip install oct

NB : You may encounter build error with pip or easy_install, you