[Catalyst-dev] Catalyst test suite

[Andy Grundman]

I guess we weren't testing the same thing... I was running t/ 
optional_http-server.t not the POE test.  BTW, the POE engine is no  
longer supported (by me anyway), it's been deprecated in favor of the  
HTTP::Prefork engine.

On May 6, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Yuri Shtil wrote:

> I just fetched the trunk (am not sure whether it is 5.7) and got the  
> same:
>
> 'Couldn\'t load plugin "Catalyst::Plugin:: 
> +TestApp::Plugin::FullyQualified", "Can\'t locate Catalyst/Plugin/ 
> +TestApp/Plugin/FullyQualified.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /export/ 
> work/CatRepo/trunk/Catalyst-Engine-HTTP-POE/t/tmp/TestApp/script/../ 
> lib /export/work/CatRepo/trunk/Catalyst-Engine-HTTP-POE/t/../lib / 
> usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/ 
> site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ 
> 5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386- 
> linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/ 
> site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/ 
> site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/ 
> 5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386- 
> linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux- 
> thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread- 
> multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/ 
> 5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/ 
> 5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux- 
> thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ 
> 5.8.8/Catalyst.pm line 1752.
>
> BTW the optional_poe-server.t script goes into an infinite loop, I  
> had to read the pipe to see this.
>
> What do I miss?
>
> Where does Catalyst::Plugin::+TestApp::Plugin::FullyQualified come  
> from?
>
> Andy Grundman wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>>