If my script ended early, because maybe even a core dump ... the I wont care. It's just another case of a failed test that cant be reported by Test::More, but a human looking at the screen will hopefully understand what happened.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Evgeny <evgeny.zis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have seen the page : > > > http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Why_can%27t_a_program_count_its_own_tests > > > > And I still don't understand, why can't a perl program count its test and > > then when all the tests are done write something like: > > > > I ran 45976347563873456 tests and 587643873645 of then failed and > > 234598634875634 of them passed. > > > > (dont mind that the numbers dont add up) > > > > > > Then you dont really need to "count" the amount of tests before hand, you > > "count" them as you go, and will only know the final amount of tests at > the > > very end. > > > > They can, just say > > use Test::More 'no_plan'; > > > The problem is that what happens if you constantly > get 100 success reports while in fact you had 300 > tests, just you test script exited early? > > e.g. because you added an exit; in the middle to shortcut > your test running while you were debugging some failing test. > > > Gabor > http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html >
