Hello everyone,
I have come up with an alternative to specifying the number of tests
while still verifying that they all execute properly. It is my
understanding that the main benefit to taking the time to specify a plan
is to verify nothing funky happened before all the tests were executed
that resulted in the test being halted in the middle of a run. However,
without a failure being encountered the test will pass when things
didn't go correctly.
To get around this, while still not having to specify the number of
tests to execute, it is run a test from an END block that fails unless
the test completed. This would be signified by calling a function on
the last line of the test saying that everything was ok.
So something like this:
use Test::Simple 'no_plan';
use Test::Terminated;
# insert tests here
# signal we made it to the end okay
terminated_ok();
The only problem I can see with this implementation would be if
something could prevent the END block from executing. I verified that
it was executed upon a test exiting or dieing in the middle of execution.
Does this sound like a useful feature? Is there already support for
this somewhere? If not, would it be best as a stand-alone module, or
should it be incorporated into Test::Simple or Test::More... or
something else?
Thanks,
Dan
