[Raleigh-talk] Testing
Nathan L. Walls
nwalls at ismedia.org
Wed Feb 4 12:18:36 PST 2009
Timely! My shop is looking at Test::More / prove after a couple years
of bypassing tests in most of our Perl code.
We've used Test::Unit, but consensus is there's too little benefit for
creating/running harnesses for Test::Unit vs. using prove.
Nathan
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http://wallscorp.us/
On Feb 4, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Jason Purdy wrote:
> Testing is awesome - that's what I'm actually in the middle of right
> now. My boss decided to take one of our applications and make it
> available on another site. Since I wrote several test scripts for
> the original application, I was able to move it over to the other
> site and adapt the test scripts and over these last few days, I've
> been able to hammer out the bugs and have great confidence that the
> application on the new site will be pretty well-QA'd.
>
> We develop web applications and those are tough to test entirely
> from Perl. So we (I ;) ) split test cases into client-side (I've
> used Selenium and YUITest) to test javascript code and then
> Test::More (I just dabbled w/ Test::HTML::Content today and love
> it ... really can't go wrong w/ anything Test::* can you? ;)) to
> test the web application code (written w/ CGI::Application).
>
> I touched a little bit about my approach in my use.perl journal.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Trevor Little <trevormg19 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> I was wondering how many of you write tests for your code on a
> regular basis. What modules do you use to make that easier? I'm
> familiar with the Test::{Simple,More,Deep,...} family, but are there
> others anyone has used and likes? Does anyone work in a place were
> unit testing is enforced or at least strongly encouraged? I guess
> I'm just trying to figure out how other companies/people approach
> this kind of unit testing.
>
> Thanks,
> Trevor
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