--- chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All* of the TAP I've ever seen has been transient data generated by > one tool, > processed by another tool, and almost immediately discarded.
All of the Java I've ever seen doesn't make use of first class functions and therefore they're not very important. > Any organization which can't fix > the handful of pieces which generate TAP-diag and the one or two > pieces of > code which consume TAP-diag in an afternoon is doing something wrong > with > regard to duplication and maintainability, and it'll take quite a few > libations to make me believe that such organizations are actually > testing their code in any rigorous sense. Really? Schwern threw in the towel and admitted that Test::Builder isn't architecturally able to suit our needs. If Schwern admits this, I suspect that it's not fair to attack organizations for not being able to do in an afternoon what Schwern admits can't be effectively done. Unless you're suggesting they throw all of this away and write bespoke testing tools which don't play with what is already on the CPAN? I really can't tell from what you've written. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
