Re: Summarizing the pod tests thread

2007-08-01 Thread David Cantrell
chromatic wrote: 3) False negatives are EVER acceptable in tests False negatives have proven to be a useful tool for finding bugs *in the code doing the testing*. They have helped me to find, report, and *get fixed* bugs in several important modules. I find a miniscule number of incorrect

Re: Fixing the damage caused by has_test_pod

2007-08-01 Thread David Cantrell
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from David Cantrell No. If AUTHOR_TESTING, fail miserably unless the pod and coverage both 1. gets tested and 2. passes. That means the Test::Pod::* module in question must load. Wrong. If AUTHOR_TESTING then surely all tests *must* pass both with and *without* the opti

Re: Fixing the damage caused by has_test_pod

2007-08-01 Thread Salve J Nilsen
Adam Kennedy wrote: Salve J Nilsen wrote: Anyhow, I think being able to recreate the entire distribiution may be a good thing, but perhaps not necessarily from a CPAN-distributed tarball. I'd certainly expect that from a source repository checkout, though. CPAN-distributed tarballs are the p

Re: Fixing the damage caused by has_test_pod

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David Cantrell # on Wednesday 01 August 2007 03:21 am: >>> Wrong.  If AUTHOR_TESTING then surely all tests *must* pass both >>> with and *without* the optional module! >> >> What good does it do to skip the test if AUTHOR_TESTING?  That just >> gets us back into the same situation as the cu

Re: Revising the Perl Testing quick reference card

2007-08-01 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Andrew Ford wrote: > I have corresponded with Ian Langworth and he has agreed that I should > revise the Perl Testing quick reference. I shall be converting it to > LaTeX and expanding it to be a two-sided card, which implies doubling > the amount of information on the card. I intend to publish i

Re: Revising the Perl Testing quick reference card

2007-08-01 Thread Andy Lester
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:10:09PM +0100, Andrew Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > reference card coming on there -- to go with my > (as-yet-only-paritally-written) WWW::Mechanize card. Hooray, Mr. Ford. I love your refcards. I'll be glad to work w/you on the Mech card however I can. Thanks, x

Revising the Perl Testing quick reference card

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Ford
I have corresponded with Ian Langworth and he has agreed that I should revise the Perl Testing quick reference. I shall be converting it to LaTeX and expanding it to be a two-sided card, which implies doubling the amount of information on the card. I intend to publish it under the same Creati

page -> wiki -> wiki -> wiki

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Wilhelm
Can the responsible parties please cleanup this chain of links and shutdown/lock [1] the two abandoned wikis? http://qa.perl.org/ [2] links to: http://schwern.org/~schwern/cgi-bin/perl-qa-wiki.cgi links to: http://perl-qa.yi.org/index.php/Main_Page has spam and links to: Finally: http://

Re: page -> wiki -> wiki -> wiki

2007-08-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
Eric Wilhelm wrote: > Can the responsible parties please cleanup this chain of links and > shutdown/lock [1] the two abandoned wikis? > > http://qa.perl.org/ [2] links to: Ask can fix that. Ask? > http://schwern.org/~schwern/cgi-bin/perl-qa-wiki.cgi links to: Fixed that to point straight

Re: page -> wiki -> wiki -> wiki

2007-08-01 Thread Andy Lester
On Aug 1, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: http://qa.perl.org/ [2] links to: Ask can fix that. Ask? Oh wait, qa.perl.org is mine. What do you want I should link to instead? -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Revising the Perl Testing quick reference card

2007-08-01 Thread Michael Kernaghan
I would like more of WWW::Selenium please. Andrew Ford wrote: I have corresponded with Ian Langworth and he has agreed that I should revise the Perl Testing quick reference. I shall be converting it to LaTeX and expanding it to be a two-sided card, which implies doubling the amount of info

Re: page -> wiki -> wiki -> wiki

2007-08-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
Andy Lester wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >>> http://qa.perl.org/ [2] links to: >> >> Ask can fix that. Ask? > > Oh wait, qa.perl.org is mine. What do you want I should link to instead? http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki please.