Just a quick heads up and request for comments on a testing module I'm
putting together.
Test::Object
See search.cpan.org once the initial POD-only upload is done, but in
short I want a way to be able to define tests or groups of tests that
ANY object of a particular class should pass, and then be able to throw
objects at a test function and have it test that object against *every*
class that the object claims to implement.
I'm hitting this problem with large and deep class trees where what I
should really be doing is testing it against every parent class and
role, but in reality I do the specifics for that subclass, plus a couple
of specific ones for the parents.
The HTML version outlines the details well enough.
You would...
Test::Object->register( 'Class::Name' => \&coderef );
... the tests for various classes, and then just pass any object to...
object_ok( $object );
... and Test::Object will throw the object at all appropriate registered
tests.
Thoughts? Something exist already that I'm missing?
Adam K
