Hello there,

I would like to include some automated tests for a distribution that I release to CPAN. One of the modules included uses IPC to execute a specific program, expecting a defined output from it.

Having this program available everywhere is really hard because actually it connects to a server, execute commands and return the output generated. I thought creating a "mock" of this same program that expects an input and just print some output. That is easy to do.

What I would like to know is how is the best way to include that in the distribution to release to CPAN. The mock that I created is a very simple C program that would need to be compiled before running the tests using a Makefile already available. Considering that I'm using ExtUtils::MakeMaker to generate the distribution Makefile, how can I do that?

More important than that, is this the best way to do automated IPC testing for CPAN?

Thanks,

Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior
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In reply to CPAN automated tests for IPC by glasswalk3r

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