I've inherited an extremely large app written with CGI.pm and running under mod_perl. It's well-written, as it goes (or would have been regarded as well-written 15 years ago), but everything is lumped together; there's no separation of concerns at all. It's the intention to rewrite this using modern standards (probably Catalyst or Mojolicious), but in the meantime, there are no tests for this app and I need to get at least some basic ones going. A Mechanize script is going to be the only way of accomplishing this, because of the lack of separation.

Is there a test framework that will run this internally, so that I don't have to have a separate Apache installation just for testing (it would be politically impossible to set something like this up)? Similarly, what's the easiest way to mock a database for testing purposes? (The production DB is SQL Server.)

I'm used to the various Catalyst things that do this seamlessly and behind the scenes. I don't really care about how to accomplish this, I just want some simple way of getting started so I can start writing test scripts.

In reply to Testing large legacy CGI app by Anonymous Monk

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