[Building Sakai] Sakai CLE Automated Live Tool Testing?

[Kevin Pittman]

Georgia Tech is looking for a scripted system that could automatically
log into our Sakai instance over a web connection, go into a worksite 
that contains all of the standard Sakai tools, and then open each tool's 
main page to see if any errors are generated.  This would in essence be 
a functional side test to help us find out more quickly if something on 
the back end has gone bad creating a problem for users on the front end.

Currently, I run such a test by hand after each code upgrade/update, but 
we'd like to automate this test so that it can be run every fifteen 
minutes and notify us by email if any problems are found.

Rather than re-invent the wheel, I wanted to ask if any other school
has embarked on creating such a testing system?  I would ideally like
something written in PHP, but I would still be interested in any kind
of testing system of this nature that might be available.

Thank you,
Kevin
Georgia Tech Sakai Application Administrator

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Kevin Pittman                              kevin.pittman at oit.gatech.edu
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Systems Support Specialist III         Office of Information Technology
Academic and Research Technologies      Georgia Institute of Technology