Adrian Howard wrote:
>
> On 16 Aug 2006, at 14:45, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> I dunno, but I think the ability to
>> integrate like this is something that would make a killer feature if
>> folks figured out how to leverage (and market) it.
>
>
> The problem is that the test runners for some frameworks are "cooler"
> than Test::Harness ("pretty" GUIs, integrated with all major IDEs,
> etc.) so you've got a bit of a hill to climb before you can sell the
> extra benefits a "standard" based system might give you.
yeah, well that's kinda their problem for me - if perl only came with
one of these cooler interfaces, with pretty colors that I had to
eye-scan I might not be testing as much. now give me something I can
stick in crontab and look at the failure report tomorrow (if anything
fails) and we're all set ;)
but sure, I see your point. in fact, people have made the argument that
Test::Harness integration is actually a stumbling block for PHP testing,
since most PHP developers live in win32 world and only have open a text
editor and their browser (and I guess an ftp client or something), with
no unix-type interface available most of the time. whether this is true
or not, that someone said it would seem to indicate that, yeah, the
command line isn't all that great a tool if you're not already there
using it.
--Geoff
