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- package Test::Simple;
-
- use 5.004;
-
- use strict 'vars';
- use vars qw($VERSION);
- $VERSION = '0.45';
-
-
- use Test::Builder;
- my $Test = Test::Builder->new;
-
- sub import {
- my $self = shift;
- my $caller = caller;
- *{$caller.'::ok'} = \&ok;
-
- $Test->exported_to($caller);
- $Test->plan(@_);
- }
-
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use Test::Simple tests => 1;
-
- ok( $foo eq $bar, 'foo is bar' );
-
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- ** If you are unfamiliar with testing B<read Test::Tutorial> first! **
-
- This is an extremely simple, extremely basic module for writing tests
- suitable for CPAN modules and other pursuits. If you wish to do more
- complicated testing, use the Test::More module (a drop-in replacement
- for this one).
-
- The basic unit of Perl testing is the ok. For each thing you want to
- test your program will print out an "ok" or "not ok" to indicate pass
- or fail. You do this with the ok() function (see below).
-
- The only other constraint is you must pre-declare how many tests you
- plan to run. This is in case something goes horribly wrong during the
- test and your test program aborts, or skips a test or whatever. You
- do this like so:
-
- use Test::Simple tests => 23;
-
- You must have a plan.
-
-
- =over 4
-
- =item B<ok>
-
- ok( $foo eq $bar, $name );
- ok( $foo eq $bar );
-
- ok() is given an expression (in this case C<$foo eq $bar>). If it's
- true, the test passed. If it's false, it didn't. That's about it.
-
- ok() prints out either "ok" or "not ok" along with a test number (it
- keeps track of that for you).
-
- # This produces "ok 1 - Hell not yet frozen over" (or not ok)
- ok( get_temperature($hell) > 0, 'Hell not yet frozen over' );
-
- If you provide a $name, that will be printed along with the "ok/not
- ok" to make it easier to find your test when if fails (just search for
- the name). It also makes it easier for the next guy to understand
- what your test is for. It's highly recommended you use test names.
-
- All tests are run in scalar context. So this:
-
- ok( @stuff, 'I have some stuff' );
-
- will do what you mean (fail if stuff is empty)
-
- =cut
-
- sub ok ($;$) {
- $Test->ok(@_);
- }
-
-
- =back
-
- Test::Simple will start by printing number of tests run in the form
- "1..M" (so "1..5" means you're going to run 5 tests). This strange
- format lets Test::Harness know how many tests you plan on running in
- case something goes horribly wrong.
-
- If all your tests passed, Test::Simple will exit with zero (which is
- normal). If anything failed it will exit with how many failed. If
- you run less (or more) tests than you planned, the missing (or extras)
- will be considered failures. If no tests were ever run Test::Simple
- will throw a warning and exit with 255. If the test died, even after
- having successfully completed all its tests, it will still be
- considered a failure and will exit with 255.
-
- So the exit codes are...
-
- 0 all tests successful
- 255 test died
- any other number how many failed (including missing or extras)
-
- If you fail more than 254 tests, it will be reported as 254.
-
- This module is by no means trying to be a complete testing system.
- It's just to get you started. Once you're off the ground its
- recommended you look at L<Test::More>.
-
-
- =head1 EXAMPLE
-
- Here's an example of a simple .t file for the fictional Film module.
-
- use Test::Simple tests => 5;
-
- use Film; # What you're testing.
-
- my $btaste = Film->new({ Title => 'Bad Taste',
- Director => 'Peter Jackson',
- Rating => 'R',
- NumExplodingSheep => 1
- });
- ok( defined($btaste) and ref $btaste eq 'Film', 'new() works' );
-
- ok( $btaste->Title eq 'Bad Taste', 'Title() get' );
- ok( $btaste->Director eq 'Peter Jackson', 'Director() get' );
- ok( $btaste->Rating eq 'R', 'Rating() get' );
- ok( $btaste->NumExplodingSheep == 1, 'NumExplodingSheep() get' );
-
- It will produce output like this:
-
- 1..5
- ok 1 - new() works
- ok 2 - Title() get
- ok 3 - Director() get
- not ok 4 - Rating() get
- # Failed test (t/film.t at line 14)
- ok 5 - NumExplodingSheep() get
- # Looks like you failed 1 tests of 5
-
- Indicating the Film::Rating() method is broken.
-
-
- =head1 CAVEATS
-
- Test::Simple will only report a maximum of 254 failures in its exit
- code. If this is a problem, you probably have a huge test script.
- Split it into multiple files. (Otherwise blame the Unix folks for
- using an unsigned short integer as the exit status).
-
- Because VMS's exit codes are much, much different than the rest of the
- universe, and perl does horrible mangling to them that gets in my way,
- it works like this on VMS.
-
- 0 SS$_NORMAL all tests successful
- 4 SS$_ABORT something went wrong
-
- Unfortunately, I can't differentiate any further.
-
-
- =head1 NOTES
-
- Test::Simple is B<explicitly> tested all the way back to perl 5.004.
-
- Test::Simple is thread-safe in perl 5.8.0 and up.
-
- =head1 HISTORY
-
- This module was conceived while talking with Tony Bowden in his
- kitchen one night about the problems I was having writing some really
- complicated feature into the new Testing module. He observed that the
- main problem is not dealing with these edge cases but that people hate
- to write tests B<at all>. What was needed was a dead simple module
- that took all the hard work out of testing and was really, really easy
- to learn. Paul Johnson simultaneously had this idea (unfortunately,
- he wasn't in Tony's kitchen). This is it.
-
-
- =head1 SEE ALSO
-
- =over 4
-
- =item L<Test::More>
-
- More testing functions! Once you outgrow Test::Simple, look at
- Test::More. Test::Simple is 100% forward compatible with Test::More
- (i.e. you can just use Test::More instead of Test::Simple in your
- programs and things will still work).
-
- =item L<Test>
-
- The original Perl testing module.
-
- =item L<Test::Unit>
-
- Elaborate unit testing.
-
- =item L<Test::Inline>, L<SelfTest>
-
- Embed tests in your code!
-
- =item L<Test::Harness>
-
- Interprets the output of your test program.
-
- =back
-
-
- =head1 AUTHORS
-
- Idea by Tony Bowden and Paul Johnson, code by Michael G Schwern
- E<lt>schwern@pobox.comE<gt>, wardrobe by Calvin Klein.
-
-
- =head1 COPYRIGHT
-
- Copyright 2001 by Michael G Schwern E<lt>schwern@pobox.comE<gt>.
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
-
- See F<http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
-
- =cut
-
- 1;
-