in reply to Thoughts on making modules

perhaps a new h2xs mode that worked with an existing .pm, or a different tool.

I always write the .pm first, test it and then use h2xs. After using h2xs, I copy the module over.

Then, if I am going to submit it to CPAN, I make things a little shinier by removing silly comments from Makefile.PL and t/1.t.

So why not just use h2xs and then replace the .pm it generated? There's no need for a new tool to do that, I think :)

Now if only there was something that automated writing regression tests...

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Automating Writing Regression Tests
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 22, 2003 at 20:07 UTC

    I have a tool for that, too. It's ~/bin/newtest:

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use File::Path;
use File::Basename;

my $progfile = basename( $0 );
die "$progfile <modname> <test filename>\n" unless @ARGV >= 2;
my ($modname, $filename) = @ARGV;

my $filepath = dirname( $filename );

mkpath( $filepath ) unless -e $filepath;
open my $out, '>', $filename or die "Can't open '$filename': $!";

print $out <<END_HERE;
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

BEGIN
{
    chdir 't' if -d 't';
    use lib '../lib', '../blib/lib';
}

use strict;
use Test::More 'no_plan'; # tests => 1;

my \$module = '$modname';
use_ok( \$module ) or exit;
END_HERE

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    For Some::Module, run newtest Some::Module t/testfile.t.

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      Hm, that's kind of what h2xs also generates. But I was talking about the actual unit tests, more than just use_ok. Wouldn't it be great if with one simple command, something would analyze a requirements list and translate it to tests? But if that were possible, we could also make it write the code itself, and we'd be out of a job.

      Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

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        I started something to this end here. I might actually pick this script up again and iron it out some more.
        -brad..
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