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NAME

Test::Kit - Build custom test packages with only the features you want

DESCRIPTION

Test::Kit allows you to create a single module in your project which gives you access to all of the testing functions you want.

Its primary goal is to reduce boilerplate code that is currently littering the top of all your test files.

It also allows your testing to be more consistent; for example it becomes a trivial change to include Test::FailWarnings in all of your tests, and there is no danger that you forget to include it in a new test.

VERSION

Test::Kit 2.0 is a complete rewrite of Test::Kit by a new author.

It serves much the same purpose as the original Test::Kit, but comes with a completely new interface and some serious bugs ironed out.

The 'features' such as '+explain' and '+on_fail' have been removed. If you were using these please contact me via rt.cpan.org.

SYNOPSIS

Somewhere in your project...

package MyProject::Test;

use Test::Kit;

# Combine multiple modules' behaviour into one

include 'Test::More';
include 'Test::LongString';

# Exclude or rename exported subs

include 'Test::Warn' => {
    exclude => [ 'warning_is' ],
    renamed => {
        'warning_like' => 'test_warn_warning_like'
    },
};

# Pass parameters through to import() directly

include 'List::Util' => {
    import => [ 'min', 'max', 'shuffle' ],
};

# Include pragmata in your kit

include 'strict', 'warnings';

And then in your test files...

use MyProject::Test tests => 4;

ok 1, "1 is true";

like_string(
    `cat /usr/share/dict/words`,
    qr/^ kit $/imsx,
    "kit is a word"
);

test_warn_warning_like {
    warn "foo";
}
qr/FOO/i,
"warned foo";

is max(qw(1 2 3 4 5)), 5, 'maximum is 5';

EXCEPTIONS

Unable to find package to import into

This means that Test::Kit was unable to determine which module include() was called from. It probably means you're doing something weird!

If this is happening under any normal circumstances please file a bug report!

Subroutine %s() already supplied to %s by %s

This happens when there is a subroutine name collision. For example if you try to include both Test::Simple and Test::More in your Kit it will complain that ok() has been defined twice.

You should be able to use the exclude or rename options to solve these collisions.

Package %s already has an import() sub

This happens when your module has an import subroutine before the first include() call. This could be because you have defined one, or because your module has inherited an import() subroutine through an ISA relationship.

Test::Kit intends to install its own import method into your module, specifically it is going to install Test::Builder::Module's import() method. Test::Builder::Module is an Exporter, so if you want to define your own subroutines and export those you can push onto @EXPORT after all the calls to include().

COMPATIBILITY

Test::Kit 2.15 and above should work with Test-Simple 1.0 and 1.3 releases. Huge thanks to Chad Granum and Karen Etheridge for all their help with 1.3 support. I highly recommend upgrading to Test-Simple 1.3.

SEE ALSO

A couple of other modules try to generalize this problem beyond the scope of testing:

ToolSet - Load your commonly-used modules in a single import

Import::Base - Import a set of modules into the calling module

Test::Kit largely differs from these in that it always makes your module behave like Test::More.

AUTHOR

Test::Kit 2.0 was written by Alex Balhatchet, <kaoru at slackwise.net>

Test::Kit 0.101 and before were authored by Curtis "Ovid" Poe, <ovid at cpan.org>