SPUG: Suggestions for Testing scripts
BenRifkah Bergsten-Buret
benb at speakeasy.net
Thu Jun 15 13:50:27 PDT 2006
Satish Gupta wrote:
> I have some data processing scripts, not modules, in a directory.
> These scripts use File::Spec to "require" other scripts and modules.
> I'll like to develop some test-scripts to test these data processing
> script and place them in a different directory, say "t".
>
> One way would have been to "require" the data processing script in
> this test script but that will mess up the relative paths constructed
> from File::Spec.
Just one of the pitfalls of using implicit relative paths. I recommend
switching to explicit paths defined as arguments or in a config file.
Otherwise, have your test script cd into the appropriate directory
before it runs the data processing script that it's testing.
> While you are at it, what is the correct syntax for:
>
> use if ($cond), Test::More tests => $Num_Tests;
It appears that you want to dynamically plan your number of tests based
on a condition. If this is the case check out the 'plan' function from
Test::More. Instead of:
use Test::More tests => $Num_Tests;
You can do:
use Test::More qw(no_plan);
# and later...
plan tests => $Num_Tests if $cond;
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BenRifkah Bergsten-Buret, Research Consultant
University of Washington
* Biostatistics
o Clinical Trials Center (CTC)
+ Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC)
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