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I profusely apologizing for seeing TAP and reading JUnit. That was my mistake. However, you still don't understand. I call prove. Not you. Big difference.

So let me be loud and clear here: the fact that your code is a wrapper around prove shows that it is unnecessary. There is no way in hell I would ever put this into one of my clients' production bases.

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Re^14: swat on CPAN
by melezhik (Monk) on Jul 17, 2015 at 20:52 UTC
    I take your apologies, that is ok :)

    You say that swat is wrapper around prove and that is true. But what wrong with that? Swat uses prove to run tests. But this only one small "part" of swat , the main "part" of swat is DSL to allow one creates smoke tests for web application in quite fast and simple way. This DSL does not relate to prove at all . Please read my docs to see what this DSL is. And then let's compare with other modules , it would be interesting.

    Does it make a sense ?
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      "creates smoke tests for web application in quite fast and simple way"

      Exactly. And this is the second reason why your solution is bad. When it comes to testing, QUALITY trumps QUANTITY. I could care less how fast you churn out tests if they do not catch the actual problems before they work their way into production.

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        I of course could not realize your reality , but I use swat for a dozens web applications daily. I mean I write a new tests daily because I need this and I have time shortage, this is not artificial but real life context. This is how swat appeared . Swat by design is specially for smoke tests , no user acceptance, no UI, no Java script , no Ajax , etc, I quite ok with that there are speal tools for that ( and you know I have an experience with this too. ) But look, I talk about smoke tests , my context is quite simple - give this host a curl , check some http uri-s and that is it.

        So the quality is over quantity , I agree. With swat I get qualitive smoke tests with low time price . Sure. This is proven by my experience. So why do not you try?
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