I'm not sure if it's at all comforting, but you're running in to one of the consistent early hurdles of TDD as it relates to componentized (hush, it is too a word) architecture. TDD nearly demands you expose your code to the tests. I've been an aspiring TDDer for about five years now and still run into this problem like a skier hitting a patch of mud. I've finally convinced myself that the increased exposure pays off more in testability than the protectionism of hiding your deep implementation does in safety.

THAT said I like the command-line switch idea. What I most frequently do is push everything into a method (including an actual "main" method.) And I keep a "test" method as well. It's not particularly pretty, but then I'm certainly the only one who runs tests on my code.

At least if you had a testable mode selectable off the command line you'd be able to include your tests in a larger scale test environment.

Me

In reply to Re: TDD of non-module code by Voronich
in thread TDD of non-module code by davies

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.