Re: Using environment variables to control long running tests (again)

2003-11-18 Thread Danny Faught
Michael G Schwern wrote: Disabling tests for subjective reasons (they take too long, they don't test critical functionality, etc...) is a slippery slope. I've seen this approach used successfully in a commercial setting. The key is to make sure that the long tests do get run by someone. If

Re: Recommendations for testing e-mail output

2003-10-28 Thread Danny Faught
Mark Stosberg wrote: I'm looking at writing a test for an e-mail that's generated by Perl. I'm wondering about the best way to do this. A colleague of mine wrote fakesmtpd just for such an occasion - http://www.jera.com/tools/fakesmtpd/. It's written in Perl. -- Danny R. Faught Tejas Software

Re: black-box test tool

2003-07-24 Thread Danny Faught
Andrew Savige wrote: Just curious, has anyone had STAF? http://staf.sourceforge.net/index.php I ran across STAF when I was researching freeware test harnesses, and I recommended that my client evaluate both QMtest and STAF (they chose neither of them, probably because they wanted commercial

black-box test tool

2003-07-23 Thread Danny Faught
I've often talked about the difference between my black-box test experience and the unit testing context that most of you are working in. I've come across an interesting example of an open source black-box tool - QMTest, http://www.codesourcery.com/qm/qmtest. QMTest has all the basic black

Re: building a watchdog

2003-07-22 Thread Danny Faught
Ovid wrote: I don't think much special work would need to be done. I've heard that Test::Cmd works pretty well. I was reading that just a few days ago, but I can't remember where I read that (grr ...) I mentioned it a few days ago because it designed to deal with command-line programs, but I

Re: passing arguments to tests

2003-07-14 Thread Danny Faught
What's wrong with creating these as subtests within a single .t file? Are you trying to avoid that? Have you looked at Test::Cmd? If I remember right, it's geared for testing command-line applications rather than modules. FWIW, the black box test harness I used to use allowed specifying an

Devel::Coverage warning about POSIX.pm

2003-06-09 Thread Danny Faught
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