[Catalyst] C::P::Email and testing

Ash Berlin ash at cpan.org
Sat Dec 16 22:54:21 GMT 2006


Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> if you have an action that sends an email, how do you write tests for it?
> 
> perhaps print the email to a temp file in test mode? what do you guys do?
> 

Send it to a locally delivered address and check the mbox? use Net::IMAP 
module.

It depends what you want to check - but I'd avoid testing other ppls 
code - assume they are right unless you have a good reason not to.

Ash



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