On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:15:52PM -0500, Erik Osheim wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 04:32:18PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > > Why not test that the script *works*, not just that it compiles? > That's a good idea. Maybe something like run_ok()?
No, test that it does what it says on the tin, like this does: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DCANTRELL/Devel-CheckOS-1.61/t/50-script.t Obviously, if your script is just a very thin wrapper around a module, and just passes arguments through to a method, then you don't need to be so rigourous about it ;-) but actually running the thing once, with some parameters, and checking the results, would be a Good Thing. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information PERL: Politely Expressed Racoon Love
