Found this talk about Perl Testing by Michael Graham.
Useful Test::* modules at the end.
I found the slides when searching for dies_ok, which I was sure I had seen but couldn't find in the man pages for Test::More. And Test::Exception installed without a hitch.
I'm currently writing a test framework for an application server of ours. I'll be using Test::More as the actual framework and perform XML calls to the app server.
The only annoying thing with this is that the app server is only a business logic layer on top of a database, and after/before each run of a test suite, I need to get the database into a consistent state.
The current plan is to keep track of certain tables that actually change and delete from them, then insert default data again.
-Dom
Re:Testing modules
jplindstrom on 2004-02-25T20:31:42
Test::DatabaseRow looks very useful.
If there is nothing on CPAN, I think I'll write a simple tableRowCount($table) method to get the number of rows in a table. That should be useful for detecting new lines in a table after a call.
Or maybe a row_inserted_ok($table, $number_of_new_rows, $label). Yes... hmmm... that sounds like something... hmmm...Re:Testing modules
petdance on 2004-02-25T22:15:54
Mark's been good on the patches. I created the rows_ok() method. It's pretty darn useful.
