Re: Providing command-line arguments to tests run via 'prove'
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:05:26PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: > > I would like to be able to provide the tests run via 'prove' with options > something like this: > > some_variant_of_prove t/*.t --option1 --option2 arg1 arg2 > I want to do that too! > Can this be done? > I guess one possibility would be to use TAP::Parser with the 'exec' parameter passed to new: my $parser = TAP::Parser->new( exec => [ $^X, $script, @options ] ); Not too practical, though. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) The shortest distance between two points is not always the safest. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #69 (Epic))
Re: test suite as CPAN module
On Nov 25, 2007, at 2:22 PM, David Cantrell wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:47:58PM -0600, Chris Dolan wrote: I've been working on Test::Virtual::Filesystem for a couple of weeks. It's a growing collection of interoperability tests that should pass for any typical filesystem. Could it also be used for detecting what features a mounted filesystem supports? eg, "does this filesystem support hard links" and "does this filesystem support Unix-style permissions"? The hard bit is doing that while taking into account mount options. eg, on Mac OS X, you can mount a UFS filesystem (which supports Unix-style perms) but tell the system to ignore permissions altogether. The *really* hard bit is to do that as an unpriveleged user and without making any changes to the fs. If so, then I can see immediate uses for it in a couple of my projects. I certainly can see a use for something like that, but Test-Virtual- Filesystem would not serve as a good base. It deliberately tries not to probe the limits of the filesystem nuances (like how many symlinks do you have to follow before you get an ELOOP error = 5 on Linux, but at least 10 on other *nixes). Chris
Re: test suite as CPAN module
On Sunday 25 November 2007 20:47, Chris Dolan wrote: > I've been working on Test::Virtual::Filesystem for a couple of > weeks. > ... > filesystems (like Fuse filesystems -- I use it for Fuse::PDF) > ... > Thoughts? Fuse::PDF caught my eyes a few days ago (how could it not with that name ;) although I still wonder if it has any serious use) and having a test suite for a file system that can be reused is an excellent idea. You're right, very few tests suits are reusable. I know of standard tests for C++ that vendors can qualify against but except that not much. Other domains tha could be interresting to have generic tests suits for are: - load balancing/scheduling - network protocol - database I'm planning to write a fuse based FS so your test suit will come handy. Cheers, Nadim
