Having just read Damian Conway's recent article at perl.com, 10 Essential Development Practices (which is actually a partial excerpt of his new book, Perl Best Practices), I was all inspired to be the best Perl coder I could be... until I realized that I'm doing a lot of Perl/Tk coding right now, and haven't a clue how you'd apply Test::Simple or Test::More to a piece of event-driven GUI Tk software.

So, I seek the wisdom of the ages... how do you apply automated testing to software that's all about mediating asynchronous, graphical user input? I shudder to think what would be required to drive the mouse via software, and test every function... and then somehow determine if the output matches the desired output.

Ideas? Suggestions?

In reply to Perl/Tk and Test::Simple/More by Mikster

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