[Catalyst-dev] Catalyst test suite

Yuri Shtil yuris at juniper.net
Tue May 6 17:08:45 BST 2008


Can you send me the command to fetch the source from the repository?

Andy Grundman wrote:
> I just tried it with 5.7 trunk and it worked fine for me.
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> On May 6, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Yuri Shtil wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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