I'd want to somehow encode that so that it could spew out the tests to make sure it dies if the number of arguments is wrong or if the one significant argument matches /\W/. This would be several tests.

So you're proposing a domain specific mini-language that you can use to specify the arguments that your subroutine takes, and then use that to generate the code for the tests. You then edit the generated tests too add stuff that's not handled by the mini-language. Yes?

I'm suspicious of generated code that needs editing. If you have to update the functionality at a later date then you need to regenerate the code, and then reintegrate the edits - which can be a painful process.

Wouldn't it be simpler to implement your mini-language as a Test::Builder based Test:: module and skip the whole code-generation side?

Hopefully this makes some vague sort of sense :-)

In reply to Re^5: Automatic generation of tests by adrianh
in thread Automatic generation of tests by DrHyde

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