chromatic wrote: > On Thursday 14 September 2006 13:14, Ovid wrote: > >> What's 'bonus'? I haven't figured that out yet. > > That should be the number of successful TODO tests. If it's not, I have no > idea. > >> Also, I never tracked the exit status of the tests. Frankly, I never used >> that number myself. Does anyone? If so, can anyone provide a use case? > > Originally that was to indicate the number of failing tests, but using an > unsigned eight-bit integer really limites the applicability. You should be > able to ignore it.
That use of the exit code is a Test::More-ism and came in rather late in the game. It was put in to allow you to determine how many tests failed without having to parse the output. I don't know of anyone who actually used it to that effect. The true purpose of the harness tracking the exit code is because of this: 1..2 ok 1 ok 2 Segmentation fault That is a failing test, you have to check for a non-zero exit code to know that. So no, you can't ignore it. Its also useful information. When you program explodes sometimes its useful to know its exit and wait status.
