Are there any good automated test suites for Perl? [closed]

Answer 1

Personally, I like Test::Most, its basically Test::More with some added cool features.

Answer 2

It really depends on what you're trying to do, but here's some background for much of this.

First, you would generally write your test programs with Test::More or Test::Simple as the core testing program:

use Test::More tests => 2;

is 3, 3, 'basic equality should work';
ok !0, '... and zero should be false';

Internally, Test::Builder is called to output those test results as TAP (Test Anything Protocol). Test::Harness (a thin wrapper around TAP::Harness), reads and interprets the TAP, telling you if your tests passed or failed. The "prove" tool mentioned above is bundled with Test::Harness, so let's say that save the above in the t/ directory (the standard Perl testing directory) as "numbers.t", then you can run it with this command:

prove --verbose t/numbers.t

Or to run all tests in that directory (recursively, assuming you want to descend into subdirectories):

prove --verbose -r t/

(--verbose, of course, is optional).

As a side note, don't use TestUnit. Many people recommend it, but it was abandoned a long time ago and doesn't integrate with modern testing tools.

Answer 3

As long as you are using tests that produce TAP (Test Anything Protocol) output you might find this to be useful: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smolder

Answer 4

For automated testing in perl take a look at Test::Harness, which contains the prove tool.

The prove tool can be executed with the following command:

prove -r -Ilib t

This will recursivly test all *.t files in the 't/' directory, while adding lib to the include path.

Answer 5

I'd go for Test::More, or in general, anything that outputs TAP

Answer 6

we have to run all the test files manually for testing

You certainly want to be using prove (runs your test) and/or Module::Build (builds your code and then runs your tests using the same test harness code which prove uses internally.)