--- Andrew Savige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oooooh, that 'grind' looks like a very handy command but I'm a bit > confused about how you use it. Is it just a handy general-purpose > command or do you use it specifically as part of "make test" in > your CPAN distributions?
It's a utility that I wrote to allow me to better manage my tests. > If you have used it in a CPAN module, > please let me know which one, so I can take a look. I've just made it available at http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/downloads/grind.gz It needs more work, including allowing descending into directories (via File::Find or a similar mechanism) and having pre and post actions. I haven't figured out the best way to do the latter (that would be things like setting up a test db, tearing it down afterwards, etc.) > I assume grind calls Test::Harness:runtests() shortly after accepting > these command-line options, running all "t/*.t" tests by default, and > using @include and @exclude to include/exclude tests. Is that right? Yes. > What is --shuffle and --fast used for? Can you please give some > examples of how you use it? --shuffle will shuffle the order in which the tests are run to ensure that you have no accidental dependency on test order. --fast sets and environment variable that can be checked in the test scripts. For example, if you have a couple of tests that double the time of your test run and you want a fast check of integrity, you can put this in your code: SKIP: { skip 'Fast Tests', 1 if $ENV{FAST_TESTS}; ok( really_long_running_function(), '... successfully kills time'); } Fortunately, this is all documented in the POD :) > BTW, is there a web site that allows you to search CPAN source code? > For example, I might like to search all of CPAN for any distribution > that contains Test::Harness in any file in the t/ directory. Yes, it's called Google ;) Actually, I don't think Google will be *that* specific, but use the following for your search terms: site:search.cpan.org "use Test::Harness" That will generate a lot of "probables". Cheers, Ovid ===== Silence is Evil http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/philosophy/indexdecency.htm Ovid http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=17000 Web Programming with Perl http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
