Re^2: Test::Builder::skip() not dwimming.

wrong usage on your part

I've no reason to doubt you, but I'm still struggling to understand. The Test::Builder::skip documentation suggests to me that my usage is correct. It says that calling skip() "Skips the current test". By comparison, the skip_all() documentation says that skip_all() "Skips all the tests" - and that's exactly what happens when I replace:

$self->builder->skip('Wanting to skip the DEMO_1 tests');
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with:

$self->builder->skip_all('Wanting to skip all tests');
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With that change in place, things dwim perfectly. I find that all of the DEMO_1 and DEMO_2 tests are skipped - unless the DEMO_2 tests have been run first, in which case only the DEMO_1 tests get skipped.

I also don't understand how one would apply a skip() test if it is "just another test, like ok(...)". massa, is there an example somewhere of how Test::Builder::skip() is meant to be put to a useful purpose ?

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^3: Test::Builder::skip() not dwimming. by chromatic (Archbishop) on Sep 03, 2008 at 17:58 UTC
The Test::Builder::skip documentation suggests to me that my usage is correct. No, it doesn't. `skip()` is documented under: `Other Testing Methods These are methods which are used in the course of writing a test but are not themselves tests.` [download] It has nothing to do with control flow. It reports one test as skipped and then immediately returns. If you run a test afterward with an actual testing method, that's a new test. Of course, you should only use Test::Builder directly if you're writing a test module. Don't use it directly to run tests. Use Test::Class and Test::More.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Test::Builder::skip() not dwimming. by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 04, 2008 at 01:12 UTC
Don't use it directly to run tests. Use Test::Class and Test::More Aaah, that's what I needed to know ... I now start to get the picture. Thanks for your replies, chromatic. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^3: Test::Builder::skip() not dwimming. by Anonymous Monk on Sep 03, 2008 at 10:42 UTC
http://search.cpan.org/src/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.80/t/skip.t http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/Test-Simple-0.80/lib/Test/Tutorial.pod#Skipping_tests	[reply]
Re^4: Test::Builder::skip() not dwimming. by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 03, 2008 at 10:55 UTC
Looks to me that those links deal with Test::More::skip() rather than Test::Builder::skip() ... but I'm really quite lost with this stuff. (I sure am glad I personally don't use these Test::* modules :-) Cheers, Rob	[reply]