NAME
Bundle::Test - A set of modules for software testing in Perl
SYNOPSIS
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Test'DESCRIPTION
This bundle installs a set of modules you can use to build various kinds of Tests for your Perl Module or Application.
As a first attempt you should read the documentation of the respective modules. Probably you should start by reading Test::Tutorial which is a good introduction to testing in general and to Test::Simple and Test::More.
Test::Simple - can be used as a first attempt to write simple test for your perl module. Don't worry, the work you invest here can be transfered when you move using Test::More without loss.
Test::More is an extension of Test::Simple. It provides a number of tools to compare various data structures of Perl.
With Test::Harness you are lucky. In most of the cases you won't need it as it contains a framework to execute the various test scripts created using the other modules. At some point later in your test development you might need this though in order to package all your tests nicely.
Test::Pod is a BETA software, it should be revisited later to give more convincing description.
CONTENTS
Test
Test::Simple
Test::More
Test::Harness
Test::MockObject
Test::Pod
OTHER
More modules I plan to add to the bundle
Test::Unit I have failed to install this one
Tk Why did I need this ? Maybe for the Tk debugger ?
Test::Inline Test::Inline
QUALITY ASSURANCE
You write test in order make your software of higher quality. An important requirement for this is that your testing tools should be of high quality.
At this point though I have only collected a few modules that can be used for testing and I don't want to make any statement regarding their quality. So you are on you own here.
REFERENCES
CPAN Test Results: http://testers.cpan.org/ CPANS http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/talks/CPANTS/ Article by Chromatic http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/12/04/testing.html
AUTHOR
Gabor Szabo <lt>gabor@pti.co.il</lt>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2002 by Gabor Szabo <gabor@pti.co.il>.
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