Re: Presentation on Perl testing to Madison.pm

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Dolan
On Apr 17, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: Chris Dolan wrote: Interesting reactions: * People were appalled that Test::Class invokes methods in alphabetic order instead of lexical order It seems odd to me that people would be so concerned about the order of execution, given th

Re: Presentation on Perl testing to Madison.pm

2008-04-17 Thread Ovid
--- Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems odd to me that people would be so concerned about the order > of > execution, given the methods should be able to be executed in any > order. Any > idea why that was an issue? It's an issue when you have multiple startup/setup/teardow

Re: Presentation on Perl testing to Madison.pm

2008-04-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Chris Dolan wrote: Interesting reactions: * People were appalled that Test::Class invokes methods in alphabetic order instead of lexical order It seems odd to me that people would be so concerned about the order of execution, given the methods should be able to be executed in any order. Any

Re: Presentation on Perl testing to Madison.pm

2008-04-16 Thread Adrian Howard
On 17 Apr 2008, at 06:48, Chris Dolan wrote: [snip] Interesting reactions: * People were appalled that Test::Class invokes methods in alphabetic order instead of lexical order If it's any comfort so is the author :-) At some point I'll be changing T::C to follow lexical-order-by-class met

Presentation on Perl testing to Madison.pm

2008-04-16 Thread Chris Dolan
I made a presentation to Madison.pm (Madmongers.org) on software testing in general and Perl testing in particular. It was intended to be introductory since many Madmongers are casual Perl users and most do not have the testing religion. After discussing reasons for and types of testing,