Can someone suggest a good windows-based software package for testing PERL Code?
Your question is too broad. Depending on the type of Perl code, many options are possible. Are you testing Perl CGIs? Simple Perl scripts? Perl scripts with a GUI? And what types of tests are you trying to perform? Internal unit tests? External black-box tests?
Please provide details about what you're trying to achieve.
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Anything wrong with Test::More and friends?
If so, we probably need some more info on your requirements :-)
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A package for testing Perl code? How about using Perl to test it? Maybe you'd better explain what you're trying to test exactly. | [reply] |
Some more background:
I was coding on a Freebsd Unix shell, my ISP shut down the shell, and I want to simulate that environment on my PC. I have both Linux and Win XP running - I'd like to be able to have a standard installation of Perl 5.X with common CPAN modules installed on startup - and to be able to include new modules as I need them. I rather liked the interactive nature of the Unix system. With my ISP shutting down the Shell access I will be forced to coding/testing via FTP and HTTP screens - So simply put , given what I have, I'd like to know how I can cheaply and efficently run PERL on my machine to test my scripts before porting them to Unix.
Thank you - OEMike
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Ah. So you just want to run your scripts in a similar environment to your ISPs.
I can't give you any help on the WinXP side, but you should be able to get a similar environment on your Linux box.
Have you just tried installing the modules you need with CPAN? It will almost certainly "just work". If not, can you supply some more details of the problems you're having getting a similar environment up and running.
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Linux would probably be easier, but if you just want to run Perl scripts on Windows you can install the version of Perl provided by ActiveState and follow their directions for getting CGI working. I also use the Cygwin tools, which can be downloaded from Red Hat, to get a bash shell on Windows.
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