Folks, I've read the section in Simon's recent 'Advanced' book on testing and then browsed some of the test packages on CPAN. A bit earlier, I was much impressed by Brian Ingerson's presentation on data-driven testing at YAPC NA. So now I want to include testing in what I write in Perl. Previous testing experiences are in C, no user interfaces. So I have this GUI application in Perl (using the Prima toolkit). Now, what to do to incorporate tests ? I have one monolithic app. Testing in Perl, as far as I saw, has mainly to do with modules. I think I have to decouple the GUI from the program actions in order to produce a module that can be tested using one or many of the methods proposed on CPAN: 
use myActions;
goButton [ onClick => moduleGo }

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But then, when the go button is pressed I have to check out several check boxes for possible options chosen by the user. I could maybe store all of them in variables instead of polling the GUI interface directly and I could feed them to moduleGo(). What do you think ? Would this be roughly the way to go to incorporate testing in a GUI-driven application ? As for me, as you can see, I'm not sure at all on what to do. Is it possible to have global variables that are shared by a module ? If you'd have an example or two about using tests on a GUI application I'd be very glad. Cheers.

In reply to Testing a GUI application by carcassonne

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