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Test-Harness (3.12)

Test::Harness has always been useful - but since the 3.x release we've had something much more flexible that's letting me do some things easily that used to take terribly evil hacks with Test::Harness::Straps. Often just with the standard prove commend line. Nice.

Adrian Howard - 2008-06-24 09:34:17
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Test-Harness (3.10)

I've found the new TAP::Harness (+ TAP::Parser et. al.) a much welcome improvement in the world of Perl QA. Here's why:

1. The TAP:: & Prove:: framework is well-thought-out and extensible.

It seems many lessons have been learned from Test::Harness & Test::Harness::Straps. TAP::Harness preserves Test::Harness' functionality, and does away with several of its limitations, extensibility being a key one from my POV (there's always going to be something that your company needs or does differently).

As I was writing TAP::Formatter::HTML I found TAP::Parser & TAP::Parser::Aggregator easy to use - the events make sense & the data is well-structured, which makes moulding it into your own format simple. And that you can now easily merge stdout & stderr is *extremely* handy. Finally, if a TAP::* module doesn't do something you need, there's no excuse now: you can just subclass! [update: though some things could be easier to subclass, see RT 36397]

2. The new 'prove' utility makes it *really* easy to run tests.

Why's this so important? Because in my experience, the harder it is to write & run tests the less likely it is for developers to actually write & use them. An unused test suite is a useless. Anything that takes away barriers to entry & use is a Good Thing in my books.

I also like the fact that 'prove' is also designed to be extensible & configurable (eg: ~/.proverc to save you repeating yourself). This makes it feel like a handy unix utility rather than just something that is only used for testing Perl code.

Steve Purkis - 2008-05-20 10:39:38
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Test-Harness (2.40)

The basic test harness is all well and good, but prove is where it's at. It makes running my tests, all together or one at a time, to gather information or just to ensure correct functionality, trivial. prove has made me want to write more tests, organize my tests more clearly, and has made testing easier to force on coworkers. It's like there's a party in my test directory, and everyone's invited.

Ricardo SIGNES - 2004-01-08 03:20:39
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Test-Harness (2.36)

I love the new 'prove' testing tool. It's a great help when developing and testing. For example, it makes it easy to be "verbose" when making tests, and to pick out just a few tests to run. Like this:

prove -v -b t/01setup.t t/15specific_test.t t/99cleanup.t

It's much more convenient for me than trying to do the same thing with "make test".

Mark Stosberg - 2003-11-15 10:04:25
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