JSPerl: Testsuite for Perl5?

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

I'm meditating about using a subset of Perl to define a dialect which can be equally run within the Perlinterpreter and (after translation) on Javascript-Engines.

There are many potential benefits, but at least I could deepen my knowledge about the details of inter-language differences. (I'm NOT intending to emulate one full language within the other one!!!)

What I actually need is good approach for a test-suite.

I'm thinking about running little code snippets, and comparing the (stringified or JSON) output from Spidermonkey, (and later Rhino, V8, JScript, Actionscript,...) and of course Perl5.

Where can I find such tests defining the semantics of Perl5? Preferably tagged by features (Hash,Array,Scoping,Referencing,...) and somehow ordered by dependencies (i.e. "no need to test THIS if THAT fails")

I heard about Perl6 test-suites ... but are there any for Perl5?

Cheers Rolf

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Re: JSPerl: Testsuite for Perl5? by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 29, 2010 at 16:22 UTC
Sure, Perl 5 comes with a huge test suite in the t/ directory of the perl source tree. It's roughly sorted by topic, and you should be fine by throwing out all things that are too esoteric for your taste :-) Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply]
Re^2: JSPerl: Testsuite for Perl5? by LanX (Saint) on Jul 29, 2010 at 16:46 UTC
you mean those? http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/tree/HEAD:/t (oh just noticing that you're giving a link) indeed the "style is peculiar" (citation from readme) but it's a beginning, thanx. Cheers Rolf	[reply]