 | Chapter 7 The Standard Perl Library |  |
use Test::Harness; runtests(@tests);
This module is used by MakeMaker. If you're building a Perl extension
and if you have test scripts with filenames matching t/*.t in the
extension's subdirectory, then you can run those tests by executing the
shell command, make test.
runtests(@tests) runs all test scripts named as arguments and
checks standard output for the expected "ok
n" strings. (Standard Perl test scripts print
"ok n" for each single test, where
n is an integer incremented by one each time around.)
After all tests have been performed, runtests() prints some
performance statistics that are computed by the Benchmark module.
runtests() is exported by Test::Harness by default.
The first line output by a standard test script should be
1..m with
m being the number of tests that the test script
attempts to run. Any output from the test script to standard error is ignored
and bypassed, and thus will be seen by the user. Lines written to standard
output that look like Perl comments (starting with /^\s*\#/)
are discarded. Lines containing /^(not\s+)?ok\b/ are
interpreted as feedback for runtests().
The global variable $Test::Harness::verbose is exportable and
can be used to let runtests() display the standard output of
the script without altering the behavior otherwise.
It is tolerated if the script omits test numbers after ok.
In this case Test::Harness maintains its own counter. So the following script
output:
1..6 not ok ok not ok ok ok not ok
will generate:
FAILED tests 1, 3, 6 Failed 3/6 tests, 50.00% okay
All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %sIf all tests are successful, some statistics about the performance are printed.
FAILED tests %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.For any single script that has failing subtests, these statistics are printed.
Test returned status %d (wstat %d)Scripts that return a non-zero exit status, both $?>>8 and $?,
are printed in a message similar to the above.
Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay.Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.If not all tests were successful, the script dies with one of the above messages.
Test::Harness uses $^X to determine which Perl binary to run
the tests
with. Test scripts running via the shebang (#!) line may not be
portable because $^X is not consistent for shebang scripts across
platforms. This is no problem when Test::Harness is run with an
absolute path to the Perl binary or when $^X can be found in the path.
|  | |
| 7.2.65 Term::Complete - Word Completion Module |  | 7.2.67 Text::Abbrev - Create an Abbreviation Table from a List |