I am writing a test suite which a user will run either with prove or with make test as part of module installation. The module distro includes an executable script located in the scripts/ directory.

In the executable script -- which we'll call login.pl -- I have the following code: 

my $config = {};
print "Type your username:  ";
chomp ($config->{username} = <>);

system "stty -echo"
  and croak "Unable to turn off echoing to STDOUT";
print "Type your password:  ";
chomp ($config->{password} = <>);
print "\n";
system "stty echo"
  and croak "Unable to turn echoing to STDOUT back on";

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It DWIMs. But now suppose that in one of my test files I want to call login.pl, have the user enter her username and password and then use that data to log in to a server. If the login is successful, a string will be returned whose content I would like to validate with Test::More::like. How can I do that?

I have found that if I enter this code directly in a file where Test::More has been used, the prompt is never printed but the program hangs. I've explored both Test::Expect and IPC::Run, but I haven't been able to match anything in the documentation of either module to my needs.

Suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Jim Keenan

In reply to Interactive prompts inside a test harness by jkeenan1

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