# New Ticket Created by Allison Randal # Please include the string: [perl #59686] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59686 >
In fixing the Complex PMC in r31749, I revealed a problem in our read-only PMC tests. In t/pmc/ro.t, test 5 gets an error as expected, but the error it gets complains that add_p_ic_p doesn't exist (it hasn't existed for years, if ever). So, test 5 isn't actually testing anything useful. I'm a bit suspicious about the whole test file now, because it's not testing for the actual text of the error message, it's just testing that it got *some* error. The cage task is to review the test file and improve the error testing, so that if the read-only error is masked by some other error, the tests will fail. One possible direction is to use exception handlers to trap the read-only exceptions inside the tests, instead of just relying on the exit code. Allison
