I would like to set up automated testing for a lisp system that among other things will open up a slynk server to listen for connections.
Is there a good way for me to programmatically test whether that listener is there and accepting connections? Ideally, I would like to do this without having to start up emacs.
I have been thinking that I might override sly-secret in the test code and then see if the connection is successful, but then I'm not sure what I should be looking for on the (simulated) "emacs side", since an authentication failure causes an error in accept-connections. Should I just have the simulated client send the secret and then check to see if the connection has been closed by the server?
I'd be grateful for any suggestions.