On Thursday 29 November 2007 16:55:50 Andy Armstrong wrote: > The state stuff is useful I think. Passing args to tests is more > marginal and I certainly don't believe it's a big enough deal to > warrant the amount of debate it's attracted.
I'm not disputing the utility. This all reminds me of five or six years ago, when there was one good tool for using to write tests, and people wisely thought "Hey, cramming a lot of features into a single tool might not be the right approach" and that's when at Schwern's suggestion I extracted Test::Builder, and now all test modules can play together nicely. I wonder if all of these different features for *running* tests should go into modules that play together nicely and compose in such a way that writing our own individual runner scripts is as easy as using Test::Builder is. -- c
