I've taken over Pod-Perldoc and was surprised to find that it has virtually no tests. When I started, it had several calls to pass() and a checked that three modules loaded. You can help change that.
There are many interesting test challenges here. For instance, Pod::Perldoc::ToMan, perhaps the most used of all the formatters, shells out to pod2man and then to nroff. That's three things that need some encoding love. And, shelling out from a Perl program to a Perl program that is a call to a module makes it hard to test: the big red flag that Your Doing It Wrong. Many of the issues in RT deal with pagers and how they act on various systems. I have no idea how to test that. Maybe you do. There's a *::ToTk module. Good luck testing that. However, there are some things we can do to fail with better error messages. There are various niggling pod things that perldoc has to handle correctly, too, and I imagine testing those would benefit modules such as Pod::Checker. -- brian d foy <brian.d....@gmail.com>
