[Catalyst-dev] Catalyst test suite

[Yuri Shtil]

Hi Andy,
I was trying to run  t/optional_http-server.t. as you advised and got:

Couldn't load plugin "Catalyst::Plugin::+TestApp::Plugin::FullyQualified

What is this plus?

Andy Grundman wrote:
>
> On May 5, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Yuri Shtil wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am contemplating to write a new Catalyst::Engine subclass. A looked 
>> at the test suite of an existing module ( 
>> Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::POE) and discovered a lot of *.pm and 
>> testapp_poe.pl. I could not run it since some modules were missing 
>> (like  +TestApp::Plugin::FullyQualified).
>>
>> The POD also referred to this module passing "the Catalyst test suite".
>>
>> Am I missing something needed to develop and test Catalyst::Engine? 
>> How do I get and use the test suite?
>
> Hi,
>
> The Catalyst test suite for engines consists of the t/live_* files.  
> There are several ways to run these tests against your engine.
>
> If your engine can be scripted to run automatically, you can write a 
> wrapper script that launches the engine and runs all the tests against 
> it.  For an example of this see t/optional_http-server.t.
>
> You can manually run tests against your engine by setting the 
> CATALYST_SERVER env var to the URI where your engine is running.  Then 
> any Catalyst tests you run will run against that host.  This is very 
> helpful for debugging a single failing test.  Note that your engine 
> must be running the TestApp, which just means you need to copy t/lib/* 
> into an app.
>
> -Andy
>
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