Continuing from the DevOps and Linux practice pt.2, this time I’m going to use Cron to run the tests automatically and update the web site based on the results.

First I had to start a new Java project in the repository, after reading a little bit I saw that running tests from console was easier if I used Maven. So I first installed Maven using sudo apt install maven and then started a Maven project with VSCode.  To set up maven correctly and run my first tests with it I followed this tutorial.

The test results will be exported to a file so that the web page could read it and update the info in it. For this part I had a lot of issues trying to read a file and pass the text to the HTML, I could not run a reader script from the HTML because ExpressJS is not made for client applications. A simple solution for this is to write the output as if it were a HTML file and then just host that new HTML. Before rewriting the new file I formatted the output with regular expressions firsts in bash.

All this work took me a lot of time to do, especially the part where I had to show the testing results in the page somehow. I tried a lot of methods I found on Internet and I ended doing a mixture of them to do something I was happy with. At the end of this week I’m going to write more about this and show the final results.