Test::AtRuntime - Put tests in your code and run them as your program runs
use Test::AtRuntime 'logfile'; use Test::More; sub foo { # This test runs. TEST { pass('foo ran'); } } no Test::AtRuntime; sub bar { # This test is not run. TEST { pass('bar ran') } } foo(); bar();
Test::AtRuntime lets you use Test::More and other Test::Builder based modules directly in your source code providing a way to test your program as it runs. Similar to the concept of an assertion, except instead of dying when it fails, normal "not ok" output will be seen.
Like assertions, they can be turned on or off as needed. Tests are put inside of a TEST block like so:
TEST { like( $totally, qr/rad/ ) }
use Test::AtRuntime runs these tests. no Test::AtRuntime means these tests will not be run. In fact, they will be completely removed from the program so that performance will not be effected (except some startup performance for the filtering).
use Test::AtRuntime
no Test::AtRuntime
use Test::AtRuntime takes an argument, a logfile to append your tests to. If no logfile is given, tests will be outputed like normal.
Due to what appears to be a bug in Filter::Simple, this won't work as expected:
use Test::AtRuntime; ...run tests... no Test::AtRuntime; ...don't run tests... use Test::AtRuntime; ...run tests... <--- BUG
Once you stop running tests, they can't be made to run again.
suppress ok
It'll probably be useful to suppress the 'ok' messages so only failures are seen. Then again, "tail -f logfile | grep '^ok '" does a good job of that. Also, Test::Builder doesn't support that yet.
honor environment variables
Test::AtRuntime should honor the same NDEBUG and PERL_NDEBUG environment variables as Carp::Assert and possibly an additional one just for Test::AtRuntime.
stack trace on failure
Failing test should be accompanied by a stack trace to help figure out what's going wrong.
Test::More, Carp::Assert, Carp::Assert::More, Test::Inline, Test::Class
To install Test::AtRuntime, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Test::AtRuntime
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Test::AtRuntime
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.