Re: [Perlunit-devel] XML Generating Test Runner

[Andrew E. <an...@an...>]

Matthew Astley wrote:

Hi Matthew,

> I was hoping damagecontrol might be something similar in Perl, but 
 > it's Java too.
> The obvious searches on perlmonks.org, cpan.org and Google don't turn
> up any Perl continuous integration programs - anyone know of one?  I
> know the Java ones can kick off a set of Perl tests, but which Perl
> CGI user wants to set up Tomcat?  8-/

damagecontrol positions itself as a cross language continuous 
integration platform, and it's actually written in Ruby. It simply 
checks a module out of CVS (or Subversion), and then runs an arbitary 
command in checked out copy, so it's very easy to set it up for a Perl 
project. It's not very mature yet, but certainly usable.

> It might turn out to be less effort overall, and more useful in terms
> of getting your code distributed
> (e.g. http://packages.debian.org/libtest-unit-perl ), if you add your
> runner to the perlunit project itself.  Would you want to do this?
> What are the dependencies?  Is it just the one class or are there a
> lot of support files to help with the integration side?

The runner's just a single module. It depends on Time::HiRes, 
XML::Generator, and XML::XPath for the tests. XML::XPath's quite 
heavyweight, but I guess most people using Test::Unit will have it 
installed anyway. I'm happy for it to be part of Test::Unit proper, it 
seems the easiest way to go, if you don't mind the extra dependencies 
that is.

If anybody wants to look, you can grab the code from:
http://www.andreweland.org/Test-Unit-Runner-Xml-0.1.tar.gz

   -- Andrew (http://www.andreweland.org)