I find myself often including something like the following in my tests when ensuring that parameters are being validated properly, or that a subroutine is failing by throwing an exception when I expect it to:

use Test::More tests => 1; # Just for example...
use Try::Tiny;

my $caught; 

try {
    # Call to subroutine being tested.
} catch { $caught = $_ }; 

ok( 
    defined( $caught ), 
    "tested_sub(): Threw an exception given XYZ params" 
);
like( 
    $caught, 
    qr/exception keyphrase/, 
    "tested_sub(): Proper exception reported for xyz."
);

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I'm sure there is more than one way to do it, but I'm looking to see if others have a better approach. This works fine from what I can tell; at least my tests work as I expect them to. But is there already a clearer and more concise solution I should be looking at?


Dave

In reply to Testing for exceptions with Test::More by davido

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