# from Michael G Schwern
# on Tuesday 16 September 2008 18:57:
>Ovid wrote:
>> PerlUnit is dead. Lots of people are recommending PerlUnit. What
>> have I missed?
>>
>> http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/37463
>
>My stock thinking is that because it follows the xUnit pattern that's
> most familiar to most non-Perl programmers. It's the first thing
> they stumble on that looks like what they're used to. So that's what
> they go with.
Even if they had no prior language experience, if someone tells them
they should be doing "unit testing", or they read about "unit tests",
they're going to get fed PerlUnit by google because we're afraid of the
word "unit"?
>It also contains an integrated test runner, which might help folks
> like that guy who said "As of now, we use Test::More but current
> issue is that we have to run all the test files manually for testing"
> and doesn't realize the Test::More/Test::Harness relationship.
That comment was the OP by the way. His question was basically "how do
I run my tests?", which maybe says something about our instruction
manual.
--Eric
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