Hi everyone,
I'd like to start a little thread here on date testing. As all of you date
module writers know,
one of the most important things to have in a date module is a set of strong test
cases, the stronger
your tests are, the more reliable your module will be in the long run. How many times
have you heard
a fellow co-worker or CPAN'er saying "How does your module deal with [special case
x]?".
Basically, I'd like to start a discussion on what we could do to provide
unified test cases
to all the perl date modules. Wether this takes the form of a simple database of
special cases, just
a list or else a complete unified test framework, doesn't really matter, what's
important is that
we have an evolving test case set. Basically, I think we need a way to classify
[special case x] and make
it available to be integrated in a module's test suite.
Of course, we need to take in consideration the different interface every
module has, even
the date set they use (i.e. Mayan or Discordian or Banzaloo), but if we can come up
with a simple, storable
and indexable date special case format, we can distribute it and have every date
module test against it.
Anybody into that ?
Ben
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