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Test Scenarios & Framework for Heartbeat

This directory contains only tests, and the framework used to run them. The tests are in _test.go files, with the framework and scenario definitions contained in the regular .go files.

The key types in here are:

• Scenario: A description of a given heartbeat configuration with some additional parameters
• Twist: A way to modify a scenario, by adding one additional configuration parameter perhaps
• ScenarioDB: A database of all known scenarios that lets you easily gather the events created by a single run of each

By using these three types you can create a complex matrix of tests to cover a lot of bases.

The main idea here is decoupling the generation of test data from the testing of it, letting us test multiple criteria on a known set of data. This can be thought of as an alternative to fixtures, where each Scenario could be thought of as a dynamic fixture.