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p5-Test-Base-0.89p0

data driven test framework

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Description

Testing is usually the ugly part of Perl module authoring. Perl gives you a standard way to run tests with Test::Harness, and basic testing primitives with Test::More. After that you are pretty much on your own to develop a testing framework and philosophy. Test::More encourages you to make your own framework by subclassing Test::Builder, but that is not trivial. Test::Base gives you a way to write your own test framework base class that *is* trivial. In fact it is as simple as two lines: package MyTestFramework; use Test::Base -Base; A module called "MyTestFramework.pm" containing those two lines, will give all the power of Test::More and all the power of Test::Base to every test file that uses it. As you build up the capabilities of "MyTestFramework", your tests will have all of that power as well.

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Ports path
devel/p5-Test-Base
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Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel, perl5
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