[Catalyst-dev] Catalyst test suite

[Andy Grundman]

I just tried it with 5.7 trunk and it worked fine for me.

On May 6, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Yuri Shtil wrote:

> 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
>>