Greetings, Monks!

I'm writing up the tests for a module I'm writing, and having noticed that I was writing the same thing over and over in different test files, I factored them out and put them into a .pm file in the t/ directory.

Now I've got error messages with ./Build test that I don't have with prove -I lib t/testname.t.

I'm confidant I can make the error messages go away, so don't worry about that. What I'd really like is a solid grounding in how the environment is different, so any pointers to good docs would be appreciated.

My questions are:

  1. Is that a good way to do this, or is there a better way to factor out common testing-only code?
  2. Is there anything about running in the test harness that I should watch out for?

UPDATE: Ah hah! I know why there are warnings under ./Build test and not under prove. While I had 'use warnings' on, I hadn't added the '-w' flag to prove. Running ./Build test runs the tests with the -w flag. Adding the '-w' flag to prove, makes it show the warnings just like ./Build test does. Apparently, I should have put 'use warnings' in a BEGIN block.

Yet Another UPDATE.. Okay, nix on the BEGIN block. Maybe $^W will do what I want...

In reply to Tests in a module/package? by pileofrogs

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