(For those those who missed the initial conversation, a deferred plan
is like 'no_plan' except the developer specifies the number of tests at
the end of the run instead of Test::Builder just listing how many tests
have run.)
Once again I find that deferred plans would be very helpful. I have a
test runner which runs tests defined in a declarative style in YAML
files. The YAML files specify their plan. *However*, the test runner
looks something like this:
use Test::More 'no_plan';
use TestRunner;
TestRunner->run(
$yaml,
$optional_callback
);
This optional callback sometimes does setup work which itself has
tests. So the YAML file won't know about tests defined outside of
itself and I don't know how many tests are in the YAML file until after
it's already loaded and run.
Sure, I could rewrite our entire testing system to work around this
problem, but this would take a lot of time. I want to do this:
use Test::More 'deferred';
use TestRunner;
my $tests_run = TestRunner->run(
$yaml,
$optional_callback
);
plan $tests_run;
(It also sucks when I have multiple YAML files, each of which has its
own plan. This makes the probleme even harder)
Schwern, will you accept a patch which allows deferred plans?
Cheers,
Ovid
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