NAME

TAP::Formatter::EARL - Formatting TAP output using the Evaluation and Report Language

SYNOPSIS

Use on the command line:

prove --formatter TAP::Formatter::EARL -l

DESCRIPTION

This is a formatter for TAP-based test results to output them using the Evaluation and Report Language, which is a vocabulary based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to describe test results, so that they can be shared, for example as part of an audit.

This module has a number of attributes, but they are all optional, as they have reasonable defaults. Many of them can be set using environment variables. It further extends TAP::Formatter::Console.

Attributes

• model

  An Attean mutable model that will contain the generated RDF triples. A temporary model is used by default.

• ns

  A URI::NamespaceMap object. This can be used internally in programming with prefixes, and to abbreviate using the given prefixes in serializations. It is initialized by default with the prefixes used internally.

• graph_name

  An Attean::IRI to use as graph name for all triples. In normal operations, the formatter will not use the graph name, and so the default is set to http://example.test/graph. Normal coercions apply.

  It can be set using the environment variable EARL_GRAPH_NAME.

• base

  An Attean::IRI to use as the base URI for relative URIs in the serialized output. The default is no base. Normal coercions apply.

  It can be set using the environment variable EARL_BASE.

• software_prefix, assertion_prefix, result_prefix

  Prefixes for URIs of the script running the test, the assertion that a certain result has been found, and the result itself, respectively.

  They accept a URI::Namespace object. They have relative URIs as defaults. These will not be set as a prefix in the serializer. Normal coercions apply.

  They can be set using environment variables, EARL_SOFTWARE_PREFIX, EARL_ASSERTION_PREFIX and EARL_RESULT_PREFIX, respectively.

Methods

These methods are specialised implementations of methods in the superclass TAP::Formatter::Base.

• open_test

  This is called to create a new test session. It first describes the software used in RDF before calling TAP::Formatter::EARL::Session.

• summary

  Serializes the model to Turtle and prints it to STDOUT.

TODO

This is a rudimentary first release, it will only make use of data parsed from each individual test result.

EARL reports can be extended to become a part of an extensive Linked Data cloud. It can also link to tests as formulated by e.g. Test::FITesque::RDF.

BUGS

Please report any bugs to https://github.com/kjetilk/p5-tap-formatter-earl/issues.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Kjetil Kjernsmo kjetilk@cpan.org.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2019 by Inrupt Inc

This is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.