O wise ones,

I have 2 questions, a specific question about Text::xSV and a more general question about testing.

I think I may have discovered a minor bug in xSV, as shown in the script below. My first question is, is this indeed a bug or did I misunderstand the documentation.

But more importantly, I want to add testing to my coding process. How could this type of "failure" of object creation, if that's what it is, be rewritten with testing... so that I could report it the right way... and eventually begin testing sexier things, like PUGS :)

A specific question I have about testing is, should I not use the strictures with testing, because that would cause the test script not to compile before failing? 

use warnings;
use strict;
use Text::xSV; #documentation in http://search.cpan.org/~tilly/Text-xS
+V-0.14/lib/Text/xSV.pm

#filename set in new().  works.
my $csv1 = Text::xSV->new(
filename => "filename.txt",
header   => ["partner",
            "kampagne",
            "keywordCluster",
            "keyword",
            "clicks",
            "leads",
            "orders",
            "jaronVerguetung",
            "partnerVerguetung",
            "profit"],
);
$csv1->set_sep(';');

#filename set in set_filename.  Doesn't work.
#error is "global symbol... requires explicit package name.  Fails on 
+set_filename.  But not on set_sep.  Weird.
my $csv2 = Text::xSV->new(
header   => ["partner",
            "kampagne",
            "keywordCluster",
            "keyword",
            "clicks",
            "leads",
            "orders",
            "jaronVerguetung",
            "partnerVerguetung",
            "profit"],
);
$csv2->set_sep(';');
$cvs2->set_filename("popularixCombined.csv");

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I am reading the documentation for Test::Simple, Test::More, and the testing tutorial included with the core install of perl. If there's anything else worth taking a look at, or thinking about, would appreciate insight from those with more experience than me.

UPDATE: Deleted filename => "filename.txt", from creation of second object; didn't mean to have this. Still get the error though. Thanks Corion.

UPDATE 2: Rewrote this using Test::Simple, see below.

UPDATEe 3: This was a variable name typo issue. Well, at least I got started learning the testing stuff... gulp..... /me slinks off.....

In reply to xSV question, and general testing question. by tphyahoo

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