I think you could mock inside the test file… perhaps your plugin needs to be slightly more configurable so that you can feed it fixture data or a mocked DBI or something?
FWIW this is one of my tests, doesn't solve your specific issue I think but might help you think about it: https://github.com/pangyre/p5-template-plugin-gravatar/blob/master/t/gravatar.t On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Tom Green <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote a custom template toolkit plugin and was looking for the best way to > write the unit tests for it. > > > > Does anyone have suggestions? Or a good example on the web somewhere. Google > was no help. > > > > I looked at the unit test framework in Template::Test, but didn’t find any > that use mocking which I need since my plugin loads data and I want to > replace that with a specific set in my plugin unit tests. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > templates mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates > _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [email protected] http://mail.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
