Re: HOWTO: Writing Perl6 Tests (was: Project Start: Section 1)
[email protected] (Michael G Schwern)
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In order for TODO tests to work Test::Harness must be upgraded (only 5.8.0 ships with a T::H able to parse TODO tests). An upgraded version of Test::Harness can simply be distributed with Parrot the same way Test::More is. On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:31:50PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote: > I can't find any writeup or overview on the Perl5 regression test framework. > Which is odd, because I'd expect something like that to exist in the core > documentation. -Perhaps I'm just missing it... pod/perlhack.pod contains some issues specific to the Perl 5 core. Most of them have to do with legacy and bootstrapping problems (ie. when you're testing yourself with yourself). The most important for Parrot is "you must burn a small sacrifice to cross-platform compatibility when writing core tests", but I don't think you can even write incompatible code in Parrot yet the way you can in Perl 5. Otherwise, they're just normal tests and are handled by things like Test::Tutorial, Test::More and Test.pm. Details on the test output protocol can be found in Test::Harness. > Otherwise useful links include: > > A basic guide to writing tests for Parrot > http://www.parrotcode.org/docs/tests.pod.html > > chromatic's: An Introduction to Testing > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/04/testing.html > > And there's the Perl QA sites: > http://qa.perl.org/ > http://magnonel.guild.net/~schwern/cgi-bin/perl-qa-wiki.cgi > > And Michael G. Schwern's: > http://magnonel.guild.net/~schwern/talks/Writing_A_Test_Library/full_slides/ -- Michael G. Schwern <[email protected]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[email protected]> Kwalitee Is Job One Don't ask me lady, I live in beer.