I just noticed Test::Cmd on CPAN. It looks ludicrously powerful. Possibly overkill for most people, but you could probably wrap it.

There's also some work I did for the Good Folks at Mitel Network Server Solutions (if that's a mouthful, just say "E-Smith") which is fortunately GPL'd. If you can get a copy of their e-smith-test.srpm you'll find the esmith::TestUtils library with a little thing called simulate_perl_program(). It will "run" a perl script but not as a seperate process.

This is for the case where you have a perl script you wish to test but have to change something about it in order to make it testable. For example, maybe it uses a database, you want it to use a test database but there's no easy way to change where it connects to. You can wrap DBI::connect() to alter the database connection, then call simulate_perl_program(). The program's code calls DBI->connect, it hits your wrapper, swaps out the hardcoded name with the name of the test database and passes it through to the real DBI test.

Something like: 

use DBI;
{
  my $real_connect = DBI->can('connect');
  no warnings 'redefine';
  local *DBI::connect = sub {
    my($self, $ds, $user, $pass, $attr) = @_;
    $ds =~ s/yourdb/testdb/;
    $self->$real_connect($ds, $user, $pass, $attr);
  };

  my $exit = simulate_perl_program('yourprogram.plx', @args);
}

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Additionally, if you're using Test::Inline, $_STDOUT_ and $_STDERR_ from simulate_perl_program() are simply trapped like always.

If someone has the tuits, it would be nice to see this taken out of e-smith-test and put on CPAN. I've temporarily mirrored ESmith::TestUtils

In reply to Re: Test module to assist sytem() by Anonymous Monk
in thread Test module to assist sytem() by axelrose

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