Hi Tracy, QA on the install of Perl
Can you clarify your intent? Shlomi has given a solution to confirm that the perl.exe binary passes its unit tests. This can be extended to library modules, you can confirm they are working as the developer intended by running the unit tests at install time. However, I'm wondering if your question is more about configuration management. Are you looking to confirm that you have the same library modules and module versions, when you have a test run of your script? If so, one option is setting up a private cpan mirror for installations of Perl, and Perl dependencies, where you organization can control the versions of the modules. You would then know that a QA run of your script version x.x, using versioned modules X, Y, and Z passed. This should confirm the script's functionality as the customer intends to use it. You can also look at Pinto and Carton on metacpan.org for dependency management. Other options: enforce minimum versions with Perl use statements in the code, or enforce versions in makefiles at deploy time. Hope that helps, *Dag Rowe* QA Analyst, Team Lead Pythian - Love your data On 31 July 2013 12:49, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > Hi Tracy, > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:29:18 +0000 > Tracy Radel <tracy.ra...@shinemed.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm looking for information on quality assurance documentation for basic > > Perl. I am trying to do QA on a Perl script that we wrote, but before I > can > > do this I need to do QA on the install of Perl. I've been searching for > > hours online and cannot find QA or V&V documents for Perl. Do any of you > > know where I might find this documentation, if it exists? If not, do you > > know how other companies have dealt with QA for the installation of Perl? > > > > The perl core (= the Perl 5 implementation) contains a comprehensive test > suite, > that contains over half-a-million (> 500,000) test assertions for testing > perl > on the host system. To run it, build perl and type "make test". > > I'm not sure what's the easy way to run it on a perl binary that was > already > installed to the system, but it should be doable. Make sure you run the > test > suite of the version that corresponds to the version of perl that you > installed. > > Hope it helps. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > Thanks, > > > > Tracy Radel > > Nuclear Engineer > > SHINE Medical Technologies > > tracy.ra...@shinemed.com > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Selina Mandrake - The Slayer (Buffy parody) - http://shlom.in/selina > > I feel much better, now that I’ve given up hope. > — Ashleigh Brilliant > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > -- --
