Re: ActiveState and 5.8.1

Hmmmm, a question before you do any upgrade - How do you verify/test that your application under 5.6.1 will still work under 5.8.x? There are a few differences in the 5.8.x release (checkout the release note). Probably won't matter that much, but it would be great if your application, including all the modules for the application, has test cases to verify that nothing is broken by the upgrade. You can't assume that your application will work under later releases of Perl.

Case 1 - If your projects are using Test::Simple or Test::More for testing. Congratulations! You should be pretty confident to say - I can upgrade to any future Perl version I want.

Case 2 - If your projects do not have test suite, then start writing them now! Be sure to check out the Test::Simple and Test::More packages on CPAN.

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Re: Re: ActiveState and 5.8.1 by liz (Monsignor) on Sep 23, 2003 at 07:34 UTC
Case 1 - If your projects are using Test::Simple or Test::More for testing. Congratulations! You should be pretty confident to say - I can upgrade to any future Perl version I want. True. But you may be surprised by the number of warnings your test-suite will show as it runs with "use warnings" by default in 5.8.1. Liz	[reply]