Revision history for Test-Timer

2.12 2021-07-08 Maintenance release, update not required

• Updated CODE OF CONDUCT to latest version (thanks to Yak)

• Migrated change log (Changes) from text file to Markdown file, renamed to: CHANGELOG.md

• Removed Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::CPAN::Changes from Dist::Zilla configuration

• All code has been run through Perl::Tidy

2.11 2019-09-06T17:43:07Z Maintenance release, update not required

• Applied PR #23 with POD improvements from Mohammad S Anwar

2.10 2019-02-19T16:13:40Z Maintenance release, update not required

• Cleaned the code a bit and eliminated use of regular expression for parsing output from Benchmark, issue #21

2.09 2017-11-24 Maintenance release, update not required

• Attempting to address issues with tests on Windows

• Reinstated sleep over select in the test suite

• Changed some test parameters was made a bit less relaxed attempting to decrease the execution time for the test suite

• Removed loose match in regular, it should be possible to anticipate the timeout

• Removed redundant tests, trying to cut down execution time for the test suite

2.08 2017-11-20 Maintenance release, update not required

• Addressing reports on failing tests from CPAN testers

2.07 2017-11-18 Maintenance release, update not required

• Addressing issue #17, the tests are now more liberal, so when executed on smokers, CI environments and similar, load will not influence the test results. The requirement for Test::Tester has been updated and a patch required by this distribution has been included

2.06 2017-11-14 Maintenance release, update not required

• Added cancellation of alarm, based on advice from Erik Johansen

• Implemented own sleep, based on select, this might address possible issues with sleep implementations

2.05 2017-11-12 Maintenance release, update not required

• Addressed issue #11 adding experimental graphical support elements to the documentation

2.04 2017-10-15 Maintenance release, update not required

• Minor improvements to Test::Timer::TimeoutException, some obsoleted code could be removed

• Generalising test asserting, since CPAN testers are sometime constrained on resources, making it impossible to predict the actual timeout value, see example

• Correction of spelling mistake via PR #16 from Gregor Herrmann of the Debian Perl Group

2.03 2017-07-01 Maintenance release, update not required

• Minor clean up in code and tests

2.02 2017-06-30 Maintenance release, update recommended

• Correction to documentation

• Improvements to alarm signal handling and other internal parts

• Addressed issue #15 meaning thresholds are now included in the assertions

2.01 2017-06-12 Bug fix release, update recommended

• Fixed bug where execution/time would be reported as 0, ref: issue #13

2.00 2017-06-06 Feature release, update recommended

• Improved diagnostics based on feedback for change introduced in 1.00 from Nigel Horne. The actual measured time used is now presented, ref: issue #12

• private subroutine _runtest_atleast factored out, ref: #9

1.00 2017-06-03 Feature release, update recommended

• Implemented suggestion for improvement from Nigel Horne #10

  This change impacts all the diagnostics, so these now communicate the relevant specified thresholds

• Added Dist::Zilla plugins requirements causing issues to dist.ini, so these are explicitly specified

• Exchanged CJM´s: Dist::Zilla::Plugin::VersionFromModule for Dave Rolskys: Dist::Zilla::Plugin::VersionFromMainModule

  There are some deprecation notices from Dist::Zilla making tests fail see XDG's PR

0.18 2016-12-30 Maintenance release, update not required

• Reenabled Github issues over RT, the Dist::Zilla plugins not completely compatible

0.17 2016-12-30 Maintenance release, update not required

• Exchanged use of Test::Exception for Test::Fatal

• Exchanged use of: Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub::Meta for Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GithubMeta to specify a proper homepage attribute

0.16 2016-12-29 Maintenance release, update not required

• Elimination of warnings in test suite, PR #4 from p-alik

0.15 2016-12-11 Maintenance release, update not required

• Addressed Kwalitee test: has_meta_json

• Addressing minor cosmetics issues in release 0.14

0.14 2016-12-10 Maintenance release, update not required

• Corrections to file permissions, PR #7 from Kent Fredric

0.13 2016-08-05 Maintenance release, update not required

• Corrections to the POD, PR #5 from Nick Morrott

0.12 2015-08-02 Maintenance release, update not required

• Added MetaProvides to Dist::Zilla build, this should assist in addressing the issue listed on CPANTS, see also below

• Addressing issue with inconsistent version

0.11 2015-07-15 Maintenance release, update not required

• Requirement for Perl 5.12 sneaked in issue #3, analysed code with Perl::MinimumVersion and decided for Perl version 5.6.0 as minimum requirement

0.10 2015-06-01 Maintenance release, update not required

• Test::Tester is marked as a normal runtime dependency issue #2 (RT:1047699)

• Upgraded license from Artistic license 1.0 to Artistic license 2.0

• Migrated build system from Module::Build to Dist::Zilla

0.09 2014-08-29 Maintenance release, update not required

• Addressing issue #1, the occassional report on failing the rigid test of: test_between

0.08 2014-02-22 Maintenance release, update not required

• Repository migrated to Github from hosted Subversion

• Plenty of POD updates

• Added changes.t automatic assertion of the integrity of the Changes file

0.07 2013-07-31 Maintenance release, update not required

• Corrected minor issue in this file, had forgotten to run in through the validator

0.06 2013-07-26 Maintenance release, update not required

• Fixed up Changes file as part of my Questhub quest adhering to the standard described in: CPAN::Changes::Spec

0.05 2008-11-16 Bug fix release, update not required

• Added use of Test::Builder::Module

• Added patch from brian d foy, bug in _run_test

0.04 2007-03-18 Maintenance release, update not required

• Added creation of traditional Makefile.PL to Build.PL

• Added Makefile.PL to MANIFEST

0.03 2007-03-11 Maintenance release, update not required

• Removed version number from README

• Read up on the Test::Perl::Critic documentation and updated my Perl::Critic test (t/critic.t), introducing t/perlcriticrc and added a few of the requirements needed by this test to build requirements

• Moved Test::Tester to general requirements from build requirements

• Minor changes to POD

0.02 2007-03-10 Feature release, update recommended

• Removed support for reference to arrays as second parameter to time_nok, time_ok, time_almost and time_atleast - time_between is recommended

• Read up on the Test::Builder does and eliminated the builder subroutine, this has also been removed from the test-suite (t/test-tester.t)

• Added some more tests, to get better coverage, thanks to PJCJ for Devel::Cover this module really helps, since aiming at better coverage, makes you think about your tests and code and you can eliminate stuff you do not need

• Updated POD added DIAGNOSTICS among other things

• Fixed bug in Test::Timer, with alarm being scoped using my, should be our, pointed out by Paul Evans

• Ran all code through Perl::Tidy

0.01 2007-03-01 Feature release

• First version, released on an unsuspecting world.