MirBSD manpage: Test::Harness(3p)


Test::Harness(3p)Perl Programmers Reference GuidTest::Harness(3p)

NAME

     Test::Harness - Run Perl standard test scripts with statis-
     tics

VERSION

     Version 2.56

SYNOPSIS

       use Test::Harness;

       runtests(@test_files);

DESCRIPTION

     STOP! If all you want to do is write a test script, consider
     using Test::Simple.  Test::Harness is the module that reads
     the output from Test::Simple, Test::More and other modules
     based on Test::Builder.  You don't need to know about
     Test::Harness to use those modules.

     Test::Harness runs tests and expects output from the test in
     a certain format.  That format is called TAP, the Test Any-
     thing Protocol.  It is defined in Test::Harness::TAP.

     "Test::Harness::runtests(@tests)" runs all the testscripts
     named as arguments and checks standard output for the
     expected strings in TAP format.

     The prove utility is a thin wrapper around Test::Harness.

     Taint mode

     Test::Harness will honor the "-T" or "-t" in the #! line on
     your test files.  So if you begin a test with:

         #!perl -T

     the test will be run with taint mode on.

     Configuration variables.

     These variables can be used to configure the behavior of
     Test::Harness.  They are exported on request.

     $Test::Harness::Verbose
         The package variable $Test::Harness::Verbose is export-
         able and can be used to let "runtests()" display the
         standard output of the script without altering the
         behavior otherwise.  The prove utility's "-v" flag will
         set this.

     $Test::Harness::switches
         The package variable $Test::Harness::switches is

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         exportable and can be used to set perl command line
         options used for running the test script(s). The default
         value is "-w". It overrides "HARNESS_SWITCHES".

     $Test::Harness::Timer
         If set to true, and "Time::HiRes" is available, print
         elapsed seconds after each test file.

     Failure

     When tests fail, analyze the summary report:

       t/base..............ok
       t/nonumbers.........ok
       t/ok................ok
       t/test-harness......ok
       t/waterloo..........dubious
               Test returned status 3 (wstat 768, 0x300)
       DIED. FAILED tests 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19
               Failed 10/20 tests, 50.00% okay
       Failed Test  Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
       -----------------------------------------------------------------------
       t/waterloo.t    3   768    20   10  50.00%  1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19
       Failed 1/5 test scripts, 80.00% okay. 10/44 subtests failed, 77.27% okay.

     Everything passed but t/waterloo.t.  It failed 10 of 20
     tests and exited with non-zero status indicating something
     dubious happened.

     The columns in the summary report mean:

     Failed Test
         The test file which failed.

     Stat
         If the test exited with non-zero, this is its exit
         status.

     Wstat
         The wait status of the test.

     Total
         Total number of tests expected to run.

     Fail
         Number which failed, either from "not ok" or because
         they never ran.

     Failed
         Percentage of the total tests which failed.

     List of Failed

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         A list of the tests which failed.  Successive failures
         may be abbreviated (ie. 15-20 to indicate that tests 15,
         16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 failed).

     Functions

     Test::Harness currently only has one function, here it is.

     runtests
           my $allok = runtests(@test_files);

         This runs all the given @test_files and divines whether
         they passed or failed based on their output to STDOUT
         (details above).  It prints out each individual test
         which failed along with a summary report and a how long
         it all took.

         It returns true if everything was ok.  Otherwise it will
         "die()" with one of the messages in the DIAGNOSTICS sec-
         tion.

EXPORT

     &runtests is exported by Test::Harness by default.

     $verbose, $switches and $debug are exported upon request.

DIAGNOSTICS

     "All tests successful.\nFiles=%d,  Tests=%d, %s"
         If all tests are successful some statistics about the
         performance are printed.

     "FAILED tests %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay."
         For any single script that has failing subtests statis-
         tics like the above are printed.

     "Test returned status %d (wstat %d)"
         Scripts that return a non-zero exit status, both "$? >>
         8" and $? are printed in a message similar to the above.

     "Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s"
     "Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay. %s"
         If not all tests were successful, the script dies with
         one of the above messages.

     "FAILED--Further testing stopped: %s"
         If a single subtest decides that further testing will
         not make sense, the script dies with this message.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES THAT TEST::HARNESS SETS
     Test::Harness sets these before executing the individual
     tests.

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     "HARNESS_ACTIVE"
         This is set to a true value.  It allows the tests to
         determine if they are being executed through the harness
         or by any other means.

     "HARNESS_VERSION"
         This is the version of Test::Harness.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES THAT AFFECT TEST::HARNESS
     "HARNESS_COLUMNS"
         This value will be used for the width of the terminal.
         If it is not set then it will default to "COLUMNS". If
         this is not set, it will default to 80. Note that users
         of Bourne-sh based shells will need to "export COLUMNS"
         for this module to use that variable.

     "HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST"
         When true it will make harness attempt to compile the
         test using "perlcc" before running it.

         NOTE This currently only works when sitting in the perl
         source directory!

     "HARNESS_DEBUG"
         If true, Test::Harness will print debugging information
         about itself as it runs the tests.  This is different
         from "HARNESS_VERBOSE", which prints the output from the
         test being run.  Setting $Test::Harness::Debug will
         override this, or you can use the "-d" switch in the
         prove utility.

     "HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR"
         When set to the name of a directory, harness will check
         after each test whether new files appeared in that
         directory, and report them as

           LEAKED FILES: scr.tmp 0 my.db

         If relative, directory name is with respect to the
         current directory at the moment runtests() was called.
         Putting absolute path into "HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR" may
         give more predictable results.

     "HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE"
         Makes harness ignore the exit status of child processes
         when defined.

     "HARNESS_NOTTY"
         When set to a true value, forces it to behave as though
         STDOUT were not a console.  You may need to set this if
         you don't want harness to output more frequent progress
         messages using carriage returns.  Some consoles may not

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         handle carriage returns properly (which results in a
         somewhat messy output).

     "HARNESS_PERL"
         Usually your tests will be run by $^X, the currently-
         executing Perl. However, you may want to have it run by
         a different executable, such as a threading perl, or a
         different version.

         If you're using the prove utility, you can use the
         "--perl" switch.

     "HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES"
         Its value will be prepended to the switches used to
         invoke perl on each test.  For example, setting
         "HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES" to "-W" will run all tests with
         all warnings enabled.

     "HARNESS_VERBOSE"
         If true, Test::Harness will output the verbose results
         of running its tests.  Setting $Test::Harness::verbose
         will override this, or you can use the "-v" switch in
         the prove utility.

EXAMPLE

     Here's how Test::Harness tests itself

       $ cd ~/src/devel/Test-Harness
       $ perl -Mblib -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose);
         $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t
       Using /home/schwern/src/devel/Test-Harness/blib
       t/base..............ok
       t/nonumbers.........ok
       t/ok................ok
       t/test-harness......ok
       All tests successful.
       Files=4, Tests=24, 2 wallclock secs ( 0.61 cusr + 0.41 csys = 1.02 CPU)

SEE ALSO

     The included prove utility for running test scripts from the
     command line, Test and Test::Simple for writing test
     scripts, Benchmark for the underlying timing routines, and
     Devel::Cover for test coverage analysis.

TODO

     Provide a way of running tests quietly (ie. no printing) for
     automated validation of tests.  This will probably take the
     form of a version of runtests() which rather than printing
     its output returns raw data on the state of the tests.
     (Partially done in Test::Harness::Straps)

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     Document the format.

     Fix HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST without breaking its core usage.

     Figure a way to report test names in the failure summary.

     Rework the test summary so long test names are not truncated
     as badly. (Partially done with new skip test styles)

     Add option for coverage analysis.

     Trap STDERR.

     Implement Straps total_results()

     Remember exit code

     Completely redo the print summary code.

     Implement Straps callbacks.  (experimentally implemented)

     Straps->analyze_file() not taint clean, don't know if it can
     be

     Fix that damned VMS nit.

     HARNESS_TODOFAIL to display TODO failures

     Add a test for verbose.

     Change internal list of test results to a hash.

     Fix stats display when there's an overrun.

     Fix so perls with spaces in the filename work.

     Keeping whittling away at _run_all_tests()

     Clean up how the summary is printed.  Get rid of those
     damned formats.

BUGS

     HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST currently assumes it's run from the
     Perl source directory.

     Please use the CPAN bug ticketing system at
     <http://rt.cpan.org/>. You can also mail bugs, fixes and
     enhancements to "<bug-test-harness" at "rt.cpan.org>".

AUTHORS

     Either Tim Bunce or Andreas Koenig, we don't know. What we
     know for sure is, that it was inspired by Larry Wall's TEST

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     script that came with perl distributions for ages. Numerous
     anonymous contributors exist.  Andreas Koenig held the torch
     for many years, and then Michael G Schwern.

     Current maintainer is Andy Lester "<andy at petdance.com>".

COPYRIGHT

     Copyright 2002-2005 by Michael G Schwern "<schwern at
     pobox.com>", Andy Lester "<andy at petdance.com>".

     This program is free software; you can redistribute it
     and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

     See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>.

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