Automating TDD

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

Monks,
I am looking for advice or your tricks on how to better automate test driven development?

Right now, I have some simple perl scripts I call from vim short cuts to create the bare bones test for a OO module.

Best Regards,
Ty

UPDATE:
Thank you for all your responses. I came across this module Test::StubGenerator that I think might do what I was looking for, but I can alway subclass it to make changes

Best Regards
Ty

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Re: Automating TDD by GrandFather (Saint) on Dec 03, 2010 at 05:51 UTC
So the next step is to write a script or scripts to run your tests and perform code coverage. To the extent that I've used TDD I found that code coverage analysis gave the most bang for the buck in terms of where to focus tests and how well the tests were performing. During the development phase I achieved and maintained 100% coverage, but that slipped when the project switched to a maintenance phase and by now I suspect the coverage statistics may be rather frightening. True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re: Automating TDD by perl_lover (Chaplain) on Dec 03, 2010 at 07:58 UTC
Get your project into Hudson continuous integration (http://hudson-ci.org/). This will make sure you have good coverage and unit tests are updated even when the project goes to maintenance mode.	[reply]
Re: Automating TDD by pemungkah (Priest) on Dec 04, 2010 at 00:28 UTC
You can try out Devel::Command::Tdump to develop tests while in the debugger.	[reply]
Re: Automating TDD by BrimBorium (Friar) on Dec 05, 2010 at 18:21 UTC
I use Test::Harness and Test::More to write automated module tests. That's extremely helpful also for regression testing. If you change something in your code you just run the tests again and get a pass/fail statistics.	[reply]