Super! Well done!
Makes me feel all warm inside.
Would kiss you if you were near here somewhere! :)
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evgeny
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Just pushed out a new alpha of Test::More. There's a bunch of new features
> having to do with the plan. In general it's less restrictive, you can now run
> tests without first having declared a plan.
>
> This enables the long called for new feature of done_testing(). It's a safer
> replacement for no_plan. Looks like this:
>
> use Test::More; # look ma, no plan!
>
> pass("Some sort of test");
> pass("Some other test")
>
> done_testing();
>
> If your test does not reach done_testing(), no plan will be output and your
> test will be a failure. This is safer than "no_plan" because if your test
> exits in the middle it will fail.
>
> You can also give done_testing() a number of tests. In that case it works
> just like "plan tests => #" except instead of having to put it at the
> beginning of the test it goes at the end. This gives you the opportunity to
> calculate the number of tests as things go.
>
> plan( add => # ) didn't make the cut. There were too many edge cases still to
> be worked out and I don't want to delay done_testing() because it fixes 90% of
> the problems with plans. Here at the hackathon, Ovid is working on a full-on
> sub-plan TAP syntax which may eliminate the need for it entirely. Those
> wanting a look at that can see http://github.com/ovid/test-more/master
>
> Finally, as a little aid to testing, Test::Builder->output() and friends now
> take scalar references. This makes it much easier to trap test output without
> having to try and write backwards compatible tied capturing filehandles (5.6
> will not do scalar ref filehandles). I had to suck in a copy of IO::Scalar to
> do it (one more argument in favor of just dropping 5.6) but it made the tests
> so much simpler. There's Test::Builder::NoOutput in t/lib which is a
> convenience subclass to make testing even simpler. I'm considering rolling
> the functionality into Test::Builder proper because I'm sure others will find
> it very useful.
>
>
> 0.87_01 Sun Mar 29 09:56:52 BST 2009
> New Features
> * done_testing() allows you to declare that you have finished
> running tests and how many you ran. It is a safer no_plan and
> effectively replaces it.
> * output() now supports scalar references.
>
> Feature Changes
> * You can now run a test without first declaring a plan. This allows
> done_testing() to work.
> * You can now call current_test() without first declaring a plan.
>
> Bug Fixes
> * skip_all() with no reason would output "1..0" which is invalid TAP.
> It will now always include the SKIP directive.
>
> Other
> * Repository moved to github.
>
> 0.86 Sun Nov 9 01:09:05 PST 2008
> Same as 0.85_01
>
>
>
> --
> You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the
> implementation and then relied upon it.
> -- tchrist in <31832.969261...@chthon>
>
>
