I’m beginning to feel the need to automatically test my code to ensure there are no regressions/new code doesn’t break existing code. This is especially true of HTTP functions.
I’m thinking I could develop a system based on hourly cron jobs and email myself test failures (perhaps rate limited to once a day), but rolling my own solution presents its own problems; it’ll be extra work to develop and it’d likely be just another thing I’d have to debug at least in the beginning.
I don’t want to get particularly deep/thorough; I just want to load a web page or HTTP function and make sure the results look sane, that some expected data is present and the whole thing isn’t blowing up with a server error or something.
Does anyone have any experience with this and have something better? Free external tools would be fine.