Monitoring web application behaviour with cucumber-nagios

Monitoring web application behaviour with cucumber-nagios Lindsay Holmwood <lindsay@holmwood.id.au>

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# features/google.com.au/search.feature Feature: google.com.au It should be up And I should be able to search for things Scenario: Searching for things When I visit quot;http://www.google.comquot; And I fill in quot;qquot; with quot;wikipediaquot; And I press quot;Google Searchquot; Then I should see quot;www.wikipedia.orgquot;

--format pretty

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

$ bin/cucumber --require bin/common.rb --require features/ features/google.com.au/search.feature Feature: google.com.au It should be up And I should be able to search for things Scenario: Searching for things When I visit quot;http://www.google.comquot; And I fill in quot;qquot; with quot;wikipediaquot; And I press quot;Google Searchquot; Then I should see quot;www.wikipedia.orgquot; 1 scenario 4 steps passed --format pretty

cucumber

cucumber webrat

cucumber webrat mechanize

cucumber webrat mechanize nagios =>

cucumber-nagios

$ bin/cucumber-nagios features/google.com.au/search.feature Critical: 0, Warning: 0, 4 okay | passed=4, failed=0, total=4 cucumber-nagios

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$ bin/cucumber-nagios 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

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 = quot;quot; message += quot;Critical: #{@failed.size}, quot; message += quot;Warning: 0, quot; message += quot;#{@passed.size} okayquot; message += quot; | passed=#{@passed.size))}quot; message += quot;, failed=#{@failed.size))}, total=#{@total}quot;quot; puts message end end end

#!/bin/sh dirname=$(dirname $0) feature=$1 $dirname/cucumber --require $dirname/common.rb --require features/ --format Nagios::NagiosFormatter $feature retval=$? if [ quot;$retvalquot; -eq quot;1quot; ]; then exit 2 else exit $retval fi

#!/bin/sh dirname=$(dirname $0) feature=$1 $dirname/cucumber --require $dirname/common.rb --require features/ --format Nagios::NagiosFormatter $feature retval=$? if [ quot;$retvalquot; -eq quot;1quot; ]; then exit 2 0 good else exit $retval 1 bad fi 2 ugly

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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 woosh! $ cd mysite.com

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/ # gem install auxesis-cucumber-nagios $ cucumber-nagios-gen project mysite.com woosh! $ cd mysite.com $ rake deps

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/ # gem install auxesis-cucumber-nagios $ cucumber-nagios-gen project mysite.com woosh! $ cd mysite.com $ rake deps brr!

$ 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 Scenarios per File

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

Instead of writing boring monitoring plugins from scratch, you can now do behavior driven ops!

Instead of writing boring monitoring plugins from scratch, you can now do behavior driven ops! Transform from a grumpy, misanthropic sysadmin to a hipster, agile developer instantly. — Bradley Taylor (http://bit.ly/lWWfE)

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Monitoring web application behaviour with cucumber-nagios

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