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NAME

Test::Able - xUnit with Moose

VERSION

0.04

SYNOPSIS

package MyTest;

use Test::Able;
use Test::More;

startup          some_startup  => sub { ... };
setup            some_setup    => sub { ... };
test plan => 1,  foo           => sub { ok( 1 ); };
test plan => 42, bar           => sub { ok( 1 ) for 1 .. 42; };
teardown         some_teardown => sub { ... };
shutdown         some_shutdown => sub { ... };

package main;

use MyTest;

MyTest->new->run_tests;

DESCRIPTION

An xUnit style testing framework inspired by Test::Class and built using Moose. It can do all the important things Test::Class can do and more. The prime advantages of using this module instead of Test::Class are flexibility and power. Namely, Moose.

This module was created for a few of reasons:

  • To address perceived limitations in, and downfalls of, Test::Class.

  • To leverage existing Moose expertise for testing.

  • To bring Moose to the Perl testing game.

The core code and documentation are in Test::Able::Role::Meta::Class.

EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

In addition to exporting for Moose, Test::Able will export a handful of functions that can be used to declare test-related methods.

startup/setup/test/teardown/shutdown

A more Moose-like way to do method declaration. The syntax is similar to "has" in Moose except its for test-related methods.

These start with one of startup/setup/test/teardown/shutdown depending on what type of method you are defining. Then comes any attribute name/value pairs to set in the Test::Able::Method object. The last pair must always be the method name and the coderef. This is to disambiguate between the method name/code pair and another attribute in Test::Able::Method that happens to take a coderef. Here are some examples:

setup some_setup_method => sub { ... }; test do_setup => 0, do_teardown => 0, some_test_method => sub { ... }; shutdown foo => sub { ... }, bar => undef => baz => 42, some_shutdown_method => sub { ... };

AUTHOR

Justin DeVuyst, justin@devuyst.com

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2009 by Justin DeVuyst.

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