2014-11-12 23:05 GMT+08:00 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>:

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Test suites need to work offline, and they need to be reproducible.
> I don't see that we get that easily with non-included material.

The test suite (AFAIU, pls correct me otherwise, Alex) sends also SOAP
requests to the servers, and analyzes the results. Just wsdl parsing
tests could run offline, the other tests need a connection.

The entire test suite runs off-line. It has three types of tests:

* loading offline WSDL files and checking that they were loaded correctly

* loading offline SOAP XML responses, decode them and compare them against known (saved) responses

* generate SOAP XML requests and compare them against known (saved) requests.

The XML responses are also based on real responses received from servers and the XML requests are based on XML requests that we submitted to servers and verified that the servers accepted them. .

Best Regards,
Alex.