I'm working on a generic Game infrastructure, providing generic Game::Board, Game::Piece, Game::State, Game::Interface, and Game::AI branches to the OO tree. As this was initially meant to be a proof of concept for using die/eval as a signalling method (as well as something to do while bored at work), I didn't really take the design too seriously.

As projects are wont to do, it has taken on a life of its own. Hopefully, it will be helping me to get a new job and I'm thinking I could release it as my first release to CPAN. Soooo ... I need to write tests. (I actually have a to-do list a mile long, but that's another story.)

Now, I'm working on designing the tests first before throwing more code together. I have the tests for the basic classes, like Board, Piece, etc. But, the tests for the Game::AI branch are stumping me. One of the methods is an implementation of the minimax algorithm. How would I go about testing this?

Another concern I'm having is that I also want to use this project to get into XS and Perl/C development. (I'm thinking I could outsource the minimax work to some open-source library or the like.) But, like all refactorings, I need to be able to test it to make sure that the implementation works (if it's mine) and/or the linkages work (if it's not mine).

Help?

------
We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

The idea is a little like C++ templates, except not quite so brain-meltingly complicated. -- TheDamian, Exegesis 6

Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.

In reply to (OT) Help with test design by dragonchild

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.