Last week I was at a testing conference with Acme and he came up with the idea of installing tests. He looked into hacking Module::Build and ExtUtils::MakeMaker. He also considered hacking CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm. While I don't know if he plans to continue working on this idea, he said he didn't mind me posting his idea for others to consider.

Basically, installing tests would be good because then you can run your full test suite against installed modules. That would be nice because then you could install a module and rerun your tests for your entire installation and see what broke.

I love this idea, but here are some issues that we spotted:

  1. How does one install tests for modules already installed?
  2. If you install a module with already failing tests, you need to track what the failures are so you can note different failures when you run the test suite in the future.
  3. What's the best way to install them? Should a separate tool just for this be built?

Anyone want to take a crack at this?

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

In reply to Installing Tests by Ovid

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.