Scaling up the load of your normal tests will show if your code "works" in a pragmatic sense. That is difficult in your case or you have undisclosed motives.

Using Devel::Cover could verify that your caching code is being exercised.

If your cache is implemented with a call tree, i.e. 

sub fetch {
    return _cached_fetch($_[1]) if _cached( $_[1] );
    return _via_normal_retrieval( $_[1] );
}

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there are packages that will insert code at the entry or exit of a set of routines. This would let you insert a logging function into fetch and _cached_fetch to generate statistics on cache performance. I cannot think of the name for this type of function modification.

The insert code could be something like 

sub log_cache {
    local $, = " ";
    print SOMEWHERE "MyObj cache called", caller(1), "w/",$_[1],$/;
}

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cleaned up for log readability.

Be well,
rir

In reply to Re: Testing objects that cache by rir
in thread Testing objects that cache by dreadpiratepeter

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