NAME

TestML - Generic Software Testing Meta Language

SYNOPSIS

testml: 0.0.1
title: Tests for AcmeEncode
tests: 3

text.apply_rot13  == rot13
text.apply_md5    == md5


=== Encode some poetry
--- text
There once was a fellow named Ingy,
Combining languages twas his Thingy.
--- rot13
Gurer bapr jnf n sryybj anzrq Vatl,
Pbzovavat ynathntrf gjnf uvf Guvatl.
--- md5: 7a1538ff9fc8edf8ea55d02d0b0658be

=== Encode a password
--- text: soopersekrit
--- md5: 64002c26dcc62c1d6d0f1cb908de1435

This TestML specification defines 2 tests, and defines 2 data blocks. The first block has 3 data entries, but the second one has only 2. Therefore the rot13 test applies only to the first block, while the the md5 test applies to both. This results in a total of 3 tests, which is specified in the test.

The apply_* functions are defined in a bridge class that is specified outside this test.

DESCRIPTION

TestML is a generic, programming language agnostic, meta language for writing unit tests. The idea is that you can use the same test files in multiple implementations of a given programming idea. Then you can be more certain that your application written in, say, Python matches your Perl implementation.

In a nutshell you write a bunch of data tests that have inputs and expected results. Using a simple syntax, you specify what functions the data must pass through to produce the expected results. You use a bridge class to write the functions that pass the data through your application.

This is an early release. More doc coming soon.

AUTHOR

Ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009. Ingy döt Net.

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

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html