RE: New version of Test::LongString
I use Text::Differences for this, as it will show which lines are
different, rather than just the first 50 characters. Much
easier for me to diagnose problems.
Something I put at the top of a lot of my test scripts is:
if(eval require Test::Differences; 1) {
no warnings 'redefine';
*is_deeply = \Test::Differences::eq_or_diff;
}
I think (BICBW) that it was Richard Clamp who first suggested this
idiom.
N
New version of Test::LongString
RGS has just released a new version of Test::LongString with patches I made last night. I added a new function contains_string(), and lots more docs. Test::LongString is one of those modules that you should be using if you're doing testing against large data elements, especially web pages. There are now examples in the docs that I hope make you say Wow, this is cool, thanks RGS! http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-LongString http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/Test-LongString-0.05/lib/Test/LongString.pm xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: New version of Test::LongString
On Dec 9, 2004, at 7:22 AM, Andy Lester wrote: Test::LongString is one of those modules that you should be using if you're doing testing against large data elements, especially web pages. There are now examples in the docs that I hope make you say Wow, this is cool, thanks RGS! I use Text::Differences for this, as it will show which lines are different, rather than just the first 50 characters. Much easier for me to diagnose problems. Regards, David
Re: New version of Test::LongString
On Dec 9, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: It's probably better adapted to text pages. I wrote Test::LongString to debug and test a serialization/deserialization protocol that was producing long binary strings. For this purpose, it was most helpful :) Ah, yeah. Test::Differences is line-oriented. So if you have one line, Test::LongString would be much better. :-) David
Re: New version of Test::LongString
David Wheeler wrote in perl.qa : Test::LongString is one of those modules that you should be using if you're doing testing against large data elements, especially web pages. There are now examples in the docs that I hope make you say Wow, this is cool, thanks RGS! I use Text::Differences for this, as it will show which lines are different, rather than just the first 50 characters. Much easier for me to diagnose problems. It's probably better adapted to text pages. I wrote Test::LongString to debug and test a serialization/deserialization protocol that was producing long binary strings. For this purpose, it was most helpful :)
