On 25 Jul 2005, at 22:29, Peter Kay wrote:
http://qa.perl.org/test-modules.html has a bunch of test modules
listed.
However, there are no harnesses listed. I know Test::Harness, and I'm
going to go read about Test::Builder, but what other "meta-testing"
modules are there?
[snip]
All depends on your definition of "harness" I guess :-) Is
Apache::Test one? Is Test::Class? Test::Base? Test::LectroTest?
Test::Inline?
One of the things that makes Perl's standard testing framework
interesting is that everything is so decoupled. As long as something
talks TAP you can plug it in. As well as Test::Harness, you might
want to look at:
Test::Harness::Straps
Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix
Test::TAP::Model
Apart from the TAPish stuff the only other Perl testing framework
that seemed to get any traction at all was the JUnit based
Test::Unit, which has it's own test runners as well as being able to
output TAP. Seems dead in the water now though.
The only other thing that occurs is FIT frameworks, of which Perl has
two:
Test::FIT
Test::C2FIT
Neither seems to have really caught on. People seem to prefer to grow
domain-specific languages in Perl based on Test::Builder instead.
Cheers,
Adrian
