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

Hi All,

I am starting to build unit test for an existing software with Test::Class. How do you suggest organizing these test classes so they are easily run by Test::Harness? Unfortunately the code is not created using ExtUtils::MakeMaker and h2xs so I need to write my own script to run the test classes.

This is my runtest.pl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::Class; my @test_classes; BEGIN { my @test_class_files; if (@ARGV) { push @test_class_files, @ARGV; } else { my @test_class_files = glob "UnitTest/*.pm"; } foreach my $i (@test_class_files) { if ($i =~ /\//) { $i =~ s/\//::/g; $i =~ s/\.pm$//; } push @test_classes, $i; } foreach my $i (@test_classes) { eval "require $i"; die $@ if $@; } } Test::Class->runtests;

The code is structured this way: Each application module has its counterpart under UnitTest namespace. For example: ELRes::Room tests are written in UnitTest::ELRes::Room class.

And this is how I run that script:

$ ./runtest.pl UnitTest/ELRes/Room.pm OR $ ./runtest.pl UnitTest::ELRes::Room

Or to run all test classes, I only need to call 'runtest.pl' without parameters.

I have no idea of how to convert this script into using Test::Harness as if each test class is a .t script. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks for your help...

UPDATE: Explained how I expect the code to work and the directory structure it expects to have

-cheepy-

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Re: Organizing Test::Class tests with Test::Harness
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Sep 07, 2007 at 06:33 UTC

    If you added a line something like:

    __PACKAGE__->runtests() unless caller();

    ... to all of your test packages, you could probably just call Test::Harness's runtests() with a list of test file names.

      Great!!! It works... Thanks...

      -cheepy-
Re: Organizing Test::Class tests with Test::Harness
by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 07, 2007 at 06:22 UTC
    You could just use prove:

    prove t/*.t t/*/*.t

    and make a test target in your Makefile that calls prove.

    I should have read more carefully what badaiaqrandista wanted...