On Saturday 29 April 2006 18:36, Fu, Elva wrote: > Hi all, I am a newbie for Perl. I found there are many test modules on > CPAN. It seems some of these test modules are test frameworks, and you > can add new test cases to test your code. Some of these test modules are > used to test Perl itself such as Test::Benchmark, Test::AutoLoader etc, > (maybe they are called "Perl core test" ? ). The question is: > > * We know Perl consists of many standard modules: AutoLoader, > AutoSplit, Benchmark, CGI, CPAN, Cwd etc, which are distributed with > Perl itself.
> (refer to > http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/perlnut/ch08_01.htm > <http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/perlnut/ch08_01.htm> ), Er, please don't refer to that site. It redistributes copyrighted works without the permission of the copyright holder. (I'm a copyright holder myself and have the ability to donate my time and code to the community in part because of earnings from my books.) > So is there an "integrated" test suite/module to test these standard > modules? Yes. It's part of the core source code distribution. See the t/ directories under the root of the distribution as well as those under lib/. All of the core modules that have distributions on the CPAN as well have their own t/ directories containing the same code. > I also find several test modules to test these standard modules, for > Test::Benchmark is used to test Benchmark module. But it is very boring > to find all of them one by one and download then testing all of the > standard modules:-( That's not actually the purpose of Test::Benchmark. > I would really appreciate if anybody could tell me if there is such an > "integrated" test suite/module to test all of them at one time. Not really, not in the sense that you're looking for. Every distribution has its own tests. If you get a binary distribution, you probably won't get the tests. If you get the source distribution (usually from http://www.cpan.org/), the tests are almost always in t/*. -- c
