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6 Test::Perl::Critic::Policy - A framework for testing your custom
7 Policies
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10 use Test::Perl::Critic::Policy qw< all_policies_ok >;
11 # Assuming .run files are inside 't' directory...
13 all_policies_ok()
14 # Or if your .run files are in a different directory...
16 all_policies_ok( '-test-directory' => 'run' );
17 # And if you just want to run tests for some polices...
19 all_policies_ok( -policies => ['Some::Policy', 'Another::Policy'] );
20 # If you want your test program to accept short Policy names as
22 # command-line parameters...
23 #
24 # You can then test a single policy by running
25 # "perl -Ilib t/policy-test.t My::Policy".
26 my %args = @ARGV ? ( -policies => [ @ARGV ] ) : ();
27 all_policies_ok(%args);
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30 This module provides a framework for function-testing your custom
31 Perl::Critic::Policy modules. Policy testing usually involves feeding
32 it a string of Perl code and checking its behavior. In the old days,
33 those strings of Perl code were mixed directly in the test script.
34 That sucked.
35 NOTE: This module is alpha code -- interfaces and implementation are
37 subject to major changes. This module is an integral part of building
38 and testing Perl::Critic itself, but you should not write any code
39 against this module until it has stabilized.
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42 all_policies_ok('-test-directory' => $path, -policies =>
43 \@policy_names)
44 Loads all the *.run files beneath the "-test-directory" and runs
45 the tests. If "-test-directory" is not specified, it defaults to
46 t/. "-policies" is an optional reference to an array of shortened
47 Policy names. If "-policies" specified, only the tests for
48 Policies that match one of the "m/$POLICY_NAME/imx" will be run.
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51 Testing a policy follows a very simple pattern:
52 * Policy name
54 * Subtest name
55 * Optional parameters
56 * Number of failures expected
57 * Optional exception expected
58 * Optional filename for code
59 Each of the subtests for a policy is collected in a single .run file,
61 with test properties as comments in front of each code block that
62 describes how we expect Perl::Critic to react to the code. For
63 example, say you have a policy called Variables::ProhibitVowels:
64 (In file t/Variables/ProhibitVowels.run)
66 ## name Basics
68 ## failures 1
69 ## cut
70 my $vrbl_nm = 'foo'; # Good, vowel-free name
72 my $wango = 12; # Bad, pronouncable name
73 ## name Sometimes Y
76 ## failures 1
77 ## cut
78 my $yllw = 0; # "y" not a vowel here
80 my $rhythm = 12; # But here it is
81 These are called "subtests", and two are shown above. The beauty of
83 incorporating multiple subtests in a file is that the .run is itself a
84 (mostly) valid Perl file, and not hidden in a HEREDOC, so your editor's
85 color-coding still works, and it is much easier to work with the code
86 and the POD.
87 If you need to pass any configuration parameters for your subtest, do
89 so like this:
90 ## parms { allow_y => '0' }
92 Note that all the values in this hash must be strings because that's
94 what Perl::Critic will hand you from a .perlcriticrc.
95 If it's a TODO subtest (probably because of some weird corner of PPI
97 that we exercised that Adam is getting around to fixing, right?), then
98 make a "##TODO" entry.
99 ## TODO Should pass when PPI 1.xxx comes out
101 If the code is expected to trigger an exception in the policy, indicate
103 that like so:
104 ## error 1
106 If you want to test the error message, mark it with "/.../" to indicate
108 a "like()" test:
109 ## error /Can't load Foo::Bar/
111 If the policy you are testing cares about the filename of the code, you
113 can indicate that "fcritique" should be used like so (see "fcritique"
114 for more details):
115 ## filename lib/Foo/Bar.pm
117 The value of "parms" will get "eval"ed and passed to "pcritique()", so
119 be careful.
120 In general, a subtest document runs from the "## cut" that starts it to
122 either the next "## name" or the end of the file. In very rare
123 circumstances you may need to end the test document earlier. A second
124 "## cut" will do this. The only known need for this is in
125 t/Miscellanea/RequireRcsKeywords.run, where it is used to prevent the
126 RCS keywords in the file footer from producing false positives or
127 negatives in the last test.
128 Note that nowhere within the .run file itself do you specify the policy
130 that you're testing. That's implicit within the filename.
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133 Add policy_ok() method for running subtests in just a single TODO file.
134 Can users mark this entire test as TODO or SKIP, using the normal
136 mechanisms?
137 Allow us to specify the nature of the failures, and which one. If
139 there are 15 lines of code, and six of them fail, how do we know
140 they're the right six?
141 Consolidate code from Perl::Critic::TestUtils and possibly deprecate
143 some functions there.
144 Write unit tests for this module.
146 Test that we have a t/*/*.run for each lib/*/*.pm
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150 Andy Lester, Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <thaljef@cpan.org>
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153 Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Andy Lester. All rights reserved.
154 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
156 under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can
157 be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
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