Re: test data files

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:22 PM, David Carmean <[email protected]> wrote:
>  My present project is just a script, no libraries/modules, which needs
>  to munge a set of files.  I need to copy some initial files into a working
>  directory, have the script modify them and create some new files, and then
>  check the contents.

In CPAN::Reporter, I keep test data in directories under the "t"
directory.  (In my case, "t/dist/") During tests, I create a temporary
directory with File::Temp, then use File::Copy::Recursive's dircopy()
to copy test data into the temporary directory.  I also change to the
temporary directory using File::pushd so I can pop back to the
original directory when I'm done testing.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
David