Re: Test scripts for POE

Create a session that will test your class.
Use POE::Pipe::OneWay to portably create a one-way pipe.
Create an object of the class you want to test as a child of the test session. Give it the pipe's read-only filehandle.
The tester session writes one line of data to the pipe's write-only filehandle.
The class being tested will either respond with all expected events, or it won't (or it might crash or something else).
- If the tester session receives all expected events, then the test has passed.
- If the tester session hasn't received all expected events after a reasonable amount of time has passed, then the test has failed.
Was that the last line of test data?
- Yes: Shut down the test.
- No: Loop. Write the next line of test data to the pipe's write-only filehandle.

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Re^2: Test scripts for POE by vlad_s (Novice) on Jan 17, 2012 at 17:18 UTC
Thank you Rocco, this approach has worked. I was thinking about using pipes, but discarded the idea as the traditional pipe open function blocks. Thanks for writing POE::Pipe (and the rest of the POE as well, great job!)	[reply]