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NAME

Test::Leaner - A slimmer Test::More for when you favor performance over completeness.

VERSION

Version 0.04

SYNOPSIS

use Test::Leaner tests => 10_000;
for (1 .. 10_000) {
 ...
 is $one, 1, "checking situation $_";
}

DESCRIPTION

When profiling some Test::More-based test script that contained about 10 000 unit tests, I realized that 60% of the time was spent in Test::Builder itself, even though every single test actually involved a costly eval STRING.

This module aims to be a partial replacement to Test::More in those situations where you want to run a large number of simple tests. Its functions behave the same as their Test::More counterparts, except for the following differences :

  • Stringification isn't forced on the test operands. However, "ok" honors 'bool' overloading, "is" and "is_deeply" honor 'eq' overloading (and just that one), "isnt" honors 'ne' overloading, and "cmp_ok" honors whichever overloading category corresponds to the specified operator.

  • "pass", "fail", "ok", "is", "isnt", "like", "unlike", "cmp_ok" and "is_deeply" are all guaranteed to return the truth value of the test.

  • isn't (the sub t in package isn) is not aliased to "isnt".

  • "like" and "unlike" don't special case regular expressions that are passed as '/.../' strings. A string regexp argument is always treated as the source of the regexp, making like $text, $rx and like $text, qr[$rx] equivalent to each other and to cmp_ok $text, '=~', $rx (and likewise for unlike).

  • "cmp_ok" throws an exception if the given operator isn't a valid Perl binary operator (except '=' and variants). It also tests in scalar context, so '..' will be treated as the flip-flop operator and not the range operator.

  • "is_deeply" doesn't guard for memory cycles. If the two first arguments present parallel memory cycles, the test may result in an infinite loop.

  • The tests don't output any kind of default diagnostic in case of failure ; the rationale being that if you have a large number of tests and a lot of them are failing, then you don't want to be flooded by diagnostics. Moreover, this allows a much faster variant of "is_deeply".

  • use_ok, require_ok, can_ok, isa_ok, new_ok, subtest, explain, TODO blocks and todo_skip are not implemented.

ENVIRONMENT

PERL_TEST_LEANER_USES_TEST_MORE

If this environment variable is set, Test::Leaner will replace its functions by those from Test::More. Moreover, the symbols that are imported when you use Test::Leaner will be those from Test::More, but you can still only import the symbols originally defined in Test::Leaner (hence the functions from Test::More that are not implemented in Test::Leaner will not be imported). If your version of Test::More is too old and doesn't have some symbols (like "note" or "done_testing"), they will be replaced in Test::Leaner by croaking stubs.

This may be useful if your Test::Leaner-based test script fails and you want extra diagnostics.

FUNCTIONS

The following functions from Test::More are implemented and exported by default.

plan [ tests => $count | 'no_plan' | skip_all => $reason ]

See "plan" in Test::More.

skip $reason => $count

See "skip" in Test::More.

done_testing [ $count ]

See "done_testing" in Test::More.

ok $ok [, $desc ]

See "ok" in Test::More.

pass [ $desc ]

See "pass" in Test::More.

fail [ $desc ]

See "fail" in Test::More.

is $got, $expected [, $desc ]

See "is" in Test::More.

isnt $got, $expected [, $desc ]

See "isnt" in Test::More.

like $got, $regexp_expected [, $desc ]

See "like" in Test::More.

unlike $got, $regexp_expected, [, $desc ]

See "unlike" in Test::More.

cmp_ok $got, $op, $expected [, $desc ]

See "cmp_ok" in Test::More.

is_deeply $got, $expected [, $desc ]

See "is_deeply" in Test::More.

diag @text

See "diag" in Test::More.

note @text

See "note" in Test::More.

BAIL_OUT [ $desc ]

See "BAIL_OUT" in Test::More.

Test::Leaner also provides some functions of its own, which are never exported.

tap_stream [ $fh ]

Read/write accessor for the filehandle to which the tests are outputted. On write, it also turns autoflush on onto $fh.

Note that it can only be used as a write accessor before you start any thread, as threads::shared cannot reliably share filehandles.

Defaults to STDOUT.

diag_stream [ $fh ]

Read/write accessor for the filehandle to which the diagnostics are printed. On write, it also turns autoflush on onto $fh.

Just like "tap_stream", it can only be used as a write accessor before you start any thread, as threads::shared cannot reliably share filehandles.

Defaults to STDERR.

THREADSAFE

This constant evaluates to true if and only if Test::Leaner is thread-safe, i.e. when this version of perl is at least 5.8, has been compiled with useithreads defined, and threads has been loaded before Test::Leaner. In that case, it also needs a working threads::shared.

DEPENDENCIES

perl 5.6.

Exporter, Test::More.

AUTHOR

Vincent Pit, <perl at profvince.com>, http://www.profvince.com.

You can contact me by mail or on irc.perl.org (vincent).

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-test-leaner at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Leaner. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Test::Leaner

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2010,2011 Vincent Pit, all rights reserved.

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

Except for the fallback implementation of the internal _reftype function, which has been taken from Scalar::Util and is

Copyright 1997-2007 Graham Barr, all rights reserved.

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