5 December 2006 - 16:22Interceptors for manipulating a live data-feed

I did one cool thing today: I wrote an interceptor that manipulates a data set in order to create various tests. It is interesting, the interceptor was retrieving data from a live data-feed and changing it according to various patterns which were further tested. I really like the fact that I could take this data-feed and customize it across my test needs rather than getting the guy at the end of the feed to send data in the patterns that I neeed for testing. The interceptor was created in a plug-and-play fashion so that various test patterns could be created and tested easily. One cool thing about it was that I could replicate a scenario which was really time-dependent.
Neat.