in reply to too much testing?

Without adding a module, people generally put croaky code inside an eval: 
eval {
  my $hashref = $foo->getDetails( PARAM_ONE => 1234);
};
like $@, /missing PARAM_TWO/, "detect missing param 2";

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Re^2: too much testing?
by geektron (Curate) on Sep 30, 2005 at 19:19 UTC
    i was going to look at Test::Exception as another way of doing it. (i admin the box, so i can install what i want.)

    the "standard" eval method came to mind also, but not using like with it. as always, There's More ....

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      A comon pattern I find in my testing code is

      my @dieings;
my @warnings;
my $rc;

eval {
  local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {push @warnings, @_};
  local $SIG{__DIE__ } = sub {push @dieings , @_};

  $rc = $obj->method(@params);
}

is(@warnings, $expectedWarningCount, 'correct number of warnings raise
+d');
like(shift(@warnings), qr/expected pattern of first warning/, 'first w
+arning message correct');
like(shift(@warnings), qr/expected pattern of second warning/, 'second
+ warning message correct');
...
is(@dieings, $expectedDeathCount, 'correct number of deaths raised');
like(shift(@dieings), qr/expected pattern of first death/, 'first deat
+h message correct');
...
is($rc, $expectReturnValue, 'method returned required value');
# or, if method returns an object
isa_ok($rc, 'Expect::Class', 'received expected class');
...

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        that's an interesting way of handling it.

        funny thing is, people seem to be gravitating to the part about catching $SIG{DIE} and not even noticing the title, or part of the real "meditation" ... though i guess not explicitly commenting on it is a commentary in itself.

        being the novice tester, i really am wondering when 'enough is enough' ...

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