make test failure stategy

tomazos has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Lets suppose you download a cpan module and it fails tests when you make test it. I understand the tests are kept it the t directory. Is there a general strategy for solving this? Is there a document somewhere describing the approach? How do you run tests individually rather than all at once? Can you do that from the command line? Is there a way to make test verbosely? etc.

-Andrew.

Andrew Tomazos | andrew@tomazos.com | www.tomazos.com

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Re: make test failure stategy by ysth (Canon) on Jul 13, 2005 at 11:55 UTC
You can select which tests to run using `make test TEST_FILES="t/foo.t t/bar.t t/baz*.t"` [download] (not sure which ExtUtils::MakeMaker version this requires; I believe it is undocumented). Verbose output is given by `make test TEST_VERBOSE=1` [download] (should work for ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 5.53_01 and later, plus some earlier versions). Also, you could look at using the prove utility included with recent Test::Harness versions.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: make test failure stategy by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 13, 2005 at 12:05 UTC
You can run the tests individually by hand (assuming there is no further magic in the Makefile) by doing: `perl -Mblib t/whatever.t` [download] THis will almost certainly give you more verbose output as Test::Harness (for instance) will summarize the results. /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re: make test failure stategy by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Jul 13, 2005 at 12:50 UTC
Besides the other suggestions, you might like to try the `prove` script that ships with recent releases of Test::Harness. See http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/Test-Harness-2.52/bin/prove -- Oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ? My friends all rate Windows, I must disagree. Your powers of persuasion will set them all free, So oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ? (Missquoting Janis Joplin)	[reply] [d/l]