NAME

t/lib/common.pl - common routines for tests

SYNOPSIS

# in a test file
use lib qw(t/lib);
require "common.pl";

DESCRIPTION

Functions

• dumper

  Dump the data structure in a nicer way.

• extract_meta( PROGRAM )

  Extracts the metadata as a hash reference of the named PROGRAM (e.g. 'bin/false')

Pre-defined tests

• compile_test( PROGRAM )

  Check that PROGRAM exists and compiles.

• sanity_test( PROGRAM )

  Check that PROGRAM exists and compiles, and stop the test if it doesn't. At the moment this is essentially compiile_test, but it could have more later.