6.3. System or Regression Testing
Perl comes with code for testing perl itself, and you can use these same tools for your regression tests. They are deceptively simple. The Test::Harness module maintained by Andreas König exports a routine runtests that takes as arguments the names of programs to run. It looks for a header line of the form “1..max” and output lines that say either “ok n ” or “not ok n ”, where n is between 1 and max; all other output is ignored and discarded. When it's done with all the tests, it prints a summary containing either the magic word “successful” or the dreaded word “FAILED.”
But wait, there's more. The Test module[2] by Joshua Nathaniel Pritikin makes it easy for your programs to output the “ok/not ok” lines. It ...
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