This is one of those things that you wouldn't have known if you haven't written a module for CPAN. In many CPAN distros, you'll find a pod.t and (possibly) a pod_coverage.t. Those use Test::POD and Test::Pod::Coverage respectively. In the POD for those test tools, you'll see this form. But, unless you write for CPAN where your POD syntax and coverage are important, it's unlikely you'll have ever run into those modules.

I'd estimate that 90% of the usage that I gave you is to test for Test::POD or Test::Pod::Coverage. The rest tends to be for Test::Memory::Cycle and Test::Weaken and the like. For things like Test::Warn or Test::Deep, those are just made build requirements.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^3: Skipping tests if a module is not available by dragonchild
in thread Skipping tests if a module is not available by Jeffrey Kegler

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