Here's some links to tutorials about how Perl's testing system works.
Test::Tutorial. Enough to get you going.
perldoc Test::Tutorial
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Simple/lib/Test/Tutorial.pod
Test::Simple. The simplest possible testing library. One function.
Good place to start. Forward compatible with Test::More.
perldoc Test::Simple
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Simple/lib/Test/Simple.pm
Test::More. The standard issue Perl testing module. All the fink tests
are written using this so far.
perldoc Test::More
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Simple/lib/Test/More.pm
Slides of the Testing Tutorial given at OSCON last year. Basically an
expanded version of Test::Tutorial.
http://wgz.org/chromatic/talks/TestTutorial/index.html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl mailing list for testing issues.
http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.qa
To run the test suite: make test
To run a single test: cd t && perl -I../perlmod directory/thattest.t
The tests expect to be run from t/. You can also run the tests in the
debugger, just like any other program.
In the end, tests are just another small Perl program. What makes it
a test is that it prints out "ok" when things pass and "not ok" when they
fail. Other than that, its just a normal program.
If you're experiencing a failure and can't figure out why or how to fix it,
at the very least post the failure to fink-devel. If you're not sure how
much to post, just trap the whole output of "make test" and post that.
Too much information is better than not enough. The failing tests contain
diagnostic information that's often enough to figure out what's gone wrong.
PS Write O'Reilly and tell them a perl testing book would be a GREAT IDEA! ;)
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