Re: Test::Simple fails "output" subtest 2 on Cygwin/2000

2002-07-07 Thread Danny Faught
Michael G Schwern wrote: > Never seen it in 5.6.1, but it sounds like an odd chomp() mistake. Where > did you get this perl? I installed Perl along with Cygwin. Here's what I'm seeing with chomp. I'm not familiar enough with Perl on Windows to know what's expected from chomp, or whether the st

testing with stubs

2002-12-12 Thread Danny Faught
; use warnings; use strict; use Test::Unit::Procedural; my $log_main = \&log; { no warnings; *main::log = \&sd_stubs::log_stub; } sub test_abort1 { assert (main::abort_handler() == 0); } create_suite(); CORE::exit(run_suite()); 1; -- Danny Faught Tejas Software Consulting http://www.tejasconsulting.com

Devel::Coverage warning about POSIX.pm

2003-06-09 Thread Danny Faught
-- -- -- -- foo.pl 66.67 50.00n/an/a 60.00 Total 66.67 50.00n/an/a 60.00 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Danny Faught Tejas Software Consulting http://tejasconsulting.com/

Re: passing arguments to tests

2003-07-14 Thread Danny Faught
What's wrong with creating these as subtests within a single .t file? Are you trying to avoid that? Have you looked at Test::Cmd? If I remember right, it's geared for testing command-line applications rather than modules. FWIW, the black box test harness I used to use allowed specifying an ar

Re: building a watchdog

2003-07-22 Thread Danny Faught
Ovid wrote: I don't think much special work would need to be done. I've heard that Test::Cmd works pretty well. I was reading that just a few days ago, but I can't remember where I read that (grr ...) I mentioned it a few days ago because it designed to deal with command-line programs, but I d

black-box test tool

2003-07-23 Thread Danny Faught
I've often talked about the difference between my black-box test experience and the unit testing context that most of you are working in. I've come across an interesting example of an open source black-box tool - QMTest, http://www.codesourcery.com/qm/qmtest. QMTest has all the basic black box

Re: black-box test tool

2003-07-24 Thread Danny Faught
Andrew Savige wrote: Just curious, has anyone had STAF? http://staf.sourceforge.net/index.php I ran across STAF when I was researching freeware test harnesses, and I recommended that my client evaluate both QMtest and STAF (they chose neither of them, probably because they wanted commercial sup

Re: Recommendations for testing e-mail output

2003-10-28 Thread Danny Faught
Mark Stosberg wrote: I'm looking at writing a test for an e-mail that's generated by Perl. I'm wondering about the best way to do this. A colleague of mine wrote fakesmtpd just for such an occasion - http://www.jera.com/tools/fakesmtpd/. It's written in Perl. -- Danny R. Faught Tejas Software

Re: Using environment variables to control long running tests (again)

2003-11-18 Thread Danny Faught
Michael G Schwern wrote: Disabling tests for subjective reasons (they take "too long", they don't test critical functionality, etc...) is a slippery slope. I've seen this approach used successfully in a commercial setting. The key is to make sure that the long tests do get run by someone. If u