One of our test frameworks at the BBC has difficulties using TODO testing due
to the declarative nature of the tests being written in YAML. There is now a
patch in RT (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=38018) with allows us
fine-grained control over TODO tests. It basically lets us do things like this:
my $builder = Test::Builder->new;
foreach my $test_case ($framework->cases) {
if ( my $message = $test_case->todo ) {
$builder->start_todo($message);
$test_case->run;
$builder->end_todo;
}
else {
$test_case->run;
}
}
Going through our test framework and wrapping every possible test in an
optional TODO is rather problematic, but trying to use a fully-qualified $TODO
package variable (as documented in Test::Builder) is equally problematic as
there are many packages, not all of which we know in advance. This allows us
easily to mark as 'TODO' entire test cases.
We're implementing this today because lack of a feature like this is causing us
much grief.
(As a needed side-effect, you can now nest TODO tests with this syntax).
Cheers,
Ovid
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