Hey PerlMonks!

I'm writing a Perl module that uses a popular social networking website. Obviously I'd like to write some good unit tests so that I can verify that my code works, but I'm at a loss at the best way to do this.

Since data on the site has a tendency to fluctuate often, what kind of stuff should I do to set up my tests? Should I some of the methods test against my own account and hope the expected results don't change?

Also, I use Moose in my Perl module, but should I really bother testing the methods that it writes for me?

I'm new to Perl testing, so any help would be appreciated.

Thoughts?

In reply to Testing perl modules that rely on remote data by worr

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