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NAME

Test::Pod::Coverage - Check for pod coverage in your distribution.

VERSION

Version 1.10

SYNOPSIS

In one of your dist's test files (eg t/pod-coverage.t):

use Test::Pod::Coverage tests=>1;
pod_coverage_ok( "Foo::Bar", "Foo::Bar is covered" );

DESCRIPTION

Test::Pod::Coverage is used to create a test for your distribution, to ensure that all relevant files in your distribution are appropriately documented in pod.

Can also be called with Pod::Coverage parms.

use Test::Pod::Coverage tests=>1;
pod_coverage_ok(
    "Foo::Bar",
    { also_private => [ qr/^[A-Z_]+$/ ], },
    "Foo::Bar, with all-caps functions as privates",
);

The Pod::Coverage parms are also useful for subclasses that don't re-document the parent class's methods. Here's an example from Mail::SRS.

pod_coverage_ok( "Mail::SRS" ); # No exceptions

# Define the three overridden methods.
my $trustme = { trustme => [qr/^(new|parse|compile)$/] };
pod_coverage_ok( "Mail::SRS::DB", $trustme );
pod_coverage_ok( "Mail::SRS::Guarded", $trustme );
pod_coverage_ok( "Mail::SRS::Reversable", $trustme );
pod_coverage_ok( "Mail::SRS::Shortcut", $trustme );

Alternately, you could use Pod::Coverage::CountParents, which always allows a subclass to reimplement its parents' methods without redocumenting them. For example:

my $trustparents = { coverage_class => 'Pod::Coverage::CountParents' };
pod_coverage_ok( "IO::Handle::Frayed", $trustparents );

(The coverage_class parameter is not passed to the coverage class with other parameters.)

If you want POD coverage for your module, but don't want to make Test::Pod::Coverage a prerequisite for installing, create the following as your t/pod-coverage.t file:

use Test::More;
eval "use Test::Pod::Coverage";
plan skip_all => "Test::Pod::Coverage required for testing pod coverage" if $@;

plan tests => 1;
pod_coverage_ok( "Pod::Master::Html");

Finally, Module authors can include the following in a t/pod-coverage.t file and have Test::Pod::Coverage automatically find and check all modules in the module distribution:

use Test::More;
eval "use Test::Pod::Coverage 1.00";
plan skip_all => "Test::Pod::Coverage 1.00 required for testing POD coverage" if $@;
all_pod_coverage_ok();

FUNCTIONS

All functions listed below are exported to the calling namespace.

all_pod_coverage_ok( [$parms, ] $msg )

Checks that the POD code in all modules in the distro have proper POD coverage.

If the $parms hashref if passed in, they're passed into the Pod::Coverage object that the function uses. Check the Pod::Coverage manual for what those can be.

The exception is the coverage_class parameter, which specifies a class to use for coverage testing. It defaults to Pod::Coverage.

pod_coverage_ok( $module, [$parms, ] $msg )

Checks that the POD code in $module has proper POD coverage.

If the $parms hashref if passed in, they're passed into the Pod::Coverage object that the function uses. Check the Pod::Coverage manual for what those can be.

The exception is the coverage_class parameter, which specifies a class to use for coverage testing. It defaults to Pod::Coverage.

all_modules( [@dirs] )

Returns a list of all modules in $dir and in directories below. If no directories are passed, it defaults to blib if blib exists, or lib if not.

Note that the modules are as "Foo::Bar", not "Foo/Bar.pm".

The order of the files returned is machine-dependent. If you want them sorted, you'll have to sort them yourself.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-test-pod-coverage at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Pod-Coverage. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Test::Pod::Coverage

You can also look for information at:

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/neilbowers/Test-Pod-Coverage

AUTHOR

Written by Andy Lester, <andy at petdance.com>.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Ricardo Signes for patches, and Richard Clamp for writing Pod::Coverage.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2006, Andy Lester, All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information