Thanks for taking the time to read the tutorial and for your suggestions. I've added an example of is now as that is pretty fundamental.

While I do take your point about done_testing it would be very easy for a beginner to miss the last step of reverting to a specific plan at the end and therefore maybe miss that the number of tests is not as expected. As it is documented in full in Test::More anyway I'm not entirely convinced of the benefit of repeating that here.

I'm slightly more minded to mention t as a directory for tests but again if the user is at that level, they're probably looking more at module-writing tutorials where that's covered nicely - and I've already linked to Discipulus's great post on that at the end. Does it need mentioning here still do you think?

In reply to Re^2: RFC: Basic Testing Tutorial by hippo
in thread RFC: Basic Testing Tutorial by hippo

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