Simply don't use weirdo testing ideas like Test::NoWarnings. This module only ever causes grief when a harmless warning pops up.

You can make testing as hard on yourself as you like. Include no tests, or a test.pl that only outputs

1..1
ok

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You are quite vague about your situation, code-wise. There are no "somewhat OK" tests. Write all your tests so that they pass, fail, or skip if unapplicable. If you can't test a function that way, either skip it completely, or split it or marke it parametrizable.

As an example, I'm currently writing Win32::Wlan. This module is ugly to test, because it tries to fetch information from the Wlan surroundings. This means that I will skip tests in many situations:

Even if these conditions pass, the subsequent tests are still split up into two parts

  1. Tests that output diag information about the currently seen networks. I use these tests locally for manual inspection of the results.
  2. Tests with canned results for the API calls. I use these tests to get reproducible results even when the environment changes.

In reply to Re: How To Test by Corion
in thread How To Test by John M. Dlugosz

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