Elliot Shank wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:51:57AM -0700, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
Is there a standard for signifying internal-only tests, and for make
test to figure out when they should run?
The normal way is to have them skip unless some magic environment
variable is set.
Perl::Critic used to do this and then we'd get bug reports from people
who used the same environment variables to run their author tests.
To get around this problem, what I sometime do is to use the
environment TEST_AUTHOR, but instead of just setting it to a true value,
I set it to the list of modules I own. E.g.,
$ export TEST_AUTHOR = "Test::Pod::Snippet,Git::CPAN::Patch"
and then when I check for TEST_AUTHOR, I check specifically for the
current module:
$ENV{ TEST_AUTHOR } =~ /Pod::Manual/
or plan skip_all,
q{Set TEST_AUTHOR to 'Pod::Manual' in your environment }
. q{ to enable these tests};
(of course, I should rather use "any { $_ eq 'Pod::Manual } split
',', $ENV{TEST_AUTHOR}" in case someone ever release Pod::Manual::Foo,
but you get the idea)
Joy,
`/anick
