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Test-Unit (0.25)

Good API but this distribution is too old, I swith to Test-Unit-Lite and recommand all people to switch too.

Loic Dreux - 2008-01-10 07:54:16
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Test-Unit (0.25)

Test::Unit is of course a fine module. But if you are shopping around for testing framework, I recommend you try Test::Class instead, which combines the best of two worlds. First, you get xUnit style, but I think with a slightly simpler interface. Second, you get to use all the standard Perl testing stuffs like Test::Simple, Test::More and Test::Harness. This is better because it's what most Perl modules use (so you might be more familiar with it if you're a Perl programmer), plus there are more kinds of "assert" functions in Test::More and friends compared to Test::Unit::Assert.

David Garamond - 2007-11-17 03:47:49
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Test-Unit (0.25)

This is the perl testing library to use if you are going to build out tests for large perl applications and libraries. I definitely recommend it. It provides a lot more control than the standard Test::Simple and Test::More libraries. Tests are more maintainable and readable.

rabble - 2007-03-07 15:12:26
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Test-Unit (0.25)

I like Test::Unit - it makes it much easier to create tests that are isolated from each other.

One annoyance: Unless you specify a list of tests to run, the tests arerun in random order. It would be nicer if the default was to run tests in the order in which they appear - maybe doing a simple search through the file for the 'sub' declarations could help fix this. I'll have a look...

See also, my blog posting: http://twoalpha.blogspot.com/2005/11/unit-testing-in-perl-with-testunit.html

Matisse Enzer - 2006-01-08 14:02:54
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Test-Unit (0.24)

This module fails to install on FreeBSD 4.9 with Perl 5.8.3.

It also fails to install on Slackware 9.0 with Perl 5.8.0, with an identical error.

It appears this module is being neglected. For example, there is a message on the perlunit-users mailing list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1483853&forum_id=2441) reporting the same install problem back in 2002. No reply to that message has ever been posted; nor has the module been updated since then.

Here is the error:

Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.3 "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/all_tests.......ok
t/assert..........ok
t/try_examples....NOK 1# Test 1 got: 'Suite setup
# ..FSuite teardown
#
# TIME-SUMMARY
#
# !!!FAILURES!!!
# Test Results:
# Run: 2, Failures: 1, Errors: 0
#
# There was 1 failure:
# 1) examples/fail_example.pm:19 - test_fail(fail_example)
# Born to lose ...
#
# Test was not successful.
# ' (t/try_examples.t at line 103)
# Expected: 'Suite setup
# .F.Suite teardown
#
# TIME-SUMMARY
#
# !!!FAILURES!!!
# Test Results:
# Run: 2, Failures: 1, Errors: 0
#
# There was 1 failure:
# 1) examples/fail_example.pm:19 - test_fail(fail_example)
# Born to lose ...
#
# Test was not successful.
# '
# t/try_examples.t line 103 is: ok($out, $guru_checked{$e});
t/try_examples....FAILED test 1
Failed 1/4 tests, 75.00% okay
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/try_examples.t 4 1 25.00% 1
Failed 1/3 test scripts, 66.67% okay. 1/83 subtests failed, 98.80% okay.
*** Error code 2

Stop in /root/.cpan/build/Test-Unit-0.24.
/usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

d morgo - 2004-04-30 09:31:59
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