In my lastnode I made reference to a forum system I was working on and asked for suggestions on implementing it. Of course, lots of people chimed in with the common mantra "Uses Tests!". My problem is now simply "How do I test such a beast?".

I've read the introduction to testing by chromatic and several other articles, and I think I have a fairly good idea as to what the general process of testing calls for.

My problem is that I can't seem to visualize a way to apply the tests to something like a forum. I can fairly easily visualize the tests for something simple, like a small library that exports a few functions, perhaps to perform math operations. I.e. is(MyLib::square(2),4) but how would I test say, the function that accumulates data to output in a template? Or even the method that outputs a template? Or perhaps the method that queries user data from a database?

In reply to Test Suite for a forum? by BUU

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