Re: [Perlunit-users] Testing module validity with test::Unit

[Adam S. <ad...@sp...>]

Dmitry Diskin (dd...@ic...) wrote:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
> >Dmitry Diskin (dd...@ic...) wrote:
> >
> >>Hello All!
> >>
> >>>From the Test::More documentation I learned about use_ok() and 
> >>require_ok() test functions. They recommend to use them as follows:
> >>
> >> BEGIN { use_ok('Some::Module') }
> >> BEGIN { ...some code that depends on the use... }
> >>
> >>In the case of failure to 'use' some module test will report it. Is 
> >>there any way (or need?) to do something similar with Test::Unit? Say, I 
> >>want to test my class methods, but the whole module is broken. I will 
> >>get standard perl compile error in that case?
> >
> >
> >It's been a long time since I looked at it, but I think you probably
> >should see errors - ISTR working on Test::Unit::Loader to make sure
> >the right errors were generated.  Have a look at that module, and
> >quite simply try it and see what happens!
> 
> Thank you for replying. I'm not sure if I can handle it myself. I looked 
> to Test::Unit::Loader and did not find any suitable method. Probably it 
> is not needed to test module loading at all, because if it doesn't load, 
> no tests can be run on it?

That's right.  When I said "try it and see", I meant: try running some
tests on a module which has (say) syntax errors.  Hopefully
T::U::Loader will spot the compile failure and your test runner will
show it.

> BTW, your answer came from ad...@sp... - no sign of mailing list 
> here. I was thinking that since I wrote to maillist, discussion thread 
> should be there as well..

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