NAME

Test::Unit::Assertion - The abstract base class for assertions

NAME

Any assertion class that expects to plug into Test::Unit::Assert needs to implement this interface.

Required methods

new

Creates a new assertion object. Takes whatever arguments you desire. Isn't strictly necessary for the framework to work with this class but is generally considered a good idea.

do_assertion

This is the important one. If Test::Unit::Assert::assert is called with an object as its first argument then it does:

$_[0]->do_assertion(@_[1 .. $#_]) ||
    $self->fail("Assertion failed");

This means that do_assertion should return true if the assertion succeeds and false if it doesn't. Or, you can fail by throwing a Test::Unit::Failure object, which will get caught further up the stack and used to produce a sensible error report. Generally it's good practice for do_assertion to die with a meaningful error on assertion failure rather than just returning false.

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2001 Piers Cawley <pdcawley@iterative-software.com>.

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

• Test::Unit::Assert

• Test::Unit::CodeRef

• Test::Unit::Regexp