Test::Unit::Procedural(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Test::Unit::Procedural(3pm)
NAME
Test::Unit::Procedural - Procedural style unit testing interface
SYNOPSIS
use Test::Unit::Procedural;
# your code to be tested goes here
sub foo { return 23 };
sub bar { return 42 };
# define tests
sub test_foo { assert(foo() == 23, "Your message here"); }
sub test_bar { assert(bar() == 42, "I will be printed if this fails"); }
# set_up and tear_down are used to
# prepare and release resources need for testing
sub set_up { print "hello world\n"; }
sub tear_down { print "leaving world again\n"; }
# run your test
create_suite();
run_suite();
DESCRIPTION
Test::Unit::Procedural is the procedural style interface to a sophisticated unit testing
framework for Perl that is derived from the JUnit testing framework for Java by Kent Beck
and Erich Gamma. While this framework is originally intended to support unit testing in
an object-oriented development paradigm (with support for inheritance of tests etc.),
Test::Unit::Procedural is intended to provide a simpler interface to the framework that is
more suitable for use in a scripting style environment. Therefore, Test::Unit::Procedural
does not provide much support for an object-oriented approach to unit testing - if you
want that, please have a look at Test::Unit::TestCase.
You test a given unit (a script, a module, whatever) by using Test::Unit::Procedural,
which exports the following routines into your namespace:
assert()
used to assert that a boolean condition is true
create_suite()
used to create a test suite consisting of all methods with a name prefix of "test"
run_suite()
runs the test suite (text output)
add_suite()
used to add test suites to each other
For convenience, "create_suite()" will automatically build a test suite for a given
package. This will build a test case for each subroutine in the package given that has a
name starting with "test" and pack them all together into one TestSuite object for easy
testing. If you don't give a package name to "create_suite()", the current package is
taken as default.
Test output is one status line (a "." for every successful test run, or an "F" for any
failed test run, to indicate progress), one result line ("OK" or "!!!FAILURES!!!"), and
possibly many lines reporting detailed error messages for any failed tests.
Please remember, Test::Unit::Procedural is intended to be a simple and convenient
interface. If you need more functionality, take the object-oriented approach outlined in
Test::Unit::TestCase.
AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 2000-2002, 2005 the PerlUnit Development Team (see Test::Unit or the AUTHORS
file included in this distribution).
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
o Test::Unit::TestCase
o the procedural style examples in the examples directory
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