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Test-Expr-0.000005
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/ Test::Expr

NAME

Test::Expr - Test an expression with better error messages

VERSION

This document describes Test::Expr version 0.000005

SYNOPSIS

    use Test::Expr;

    plan tests => 5;

    ok $got == $expected;
    ok $got eq $expected;
    ok $got != $expected;
    ok $got le $expected;
    ok $got >= $expected;

DESCRIPTION

This testing module installs a single keyword: ok

That keyword evaluates the expression and produces a test report entry in the usual way (i.e. just like Test::Simple::ok or Test::More::ok). Except that, if you don't give it a description argument, it uses the test expression itself as the description.

In addition, the diagnostic message produced if the test fails is significantly more useful than that provided by either of those other two modules.

For example, the sample code in the Synopsis might produce the following report:

    1..5
    ok 1 - $got == $expected
    not ok 2 - $got eq $expected
    #   Failed test '$got eq $expected'
    #   at t/synopsis.t line 13.
    #   because:
    #          $got --> "1.0"
    #     $expected --> 1
    #
    not ok 3 - $got != $expected
    #   Failed test '$got != $expected'
    #   at t/synopsis.t line 14.
    #   because:
    #          $got --> "1.0"
    #     $expected --> 1
    #
    not ok 4 - $got le $expected
    #   Failed test '$got le $expected'
    #   at t/synopsis.t line 15.
    #   because:
    #          $got --> "1.0"
    #     $expected --> 1
    #
    ok 5 - $got >= $expected
    # Looks like you failed 3 tests of 5.

In other words, this version of ok reports both that the test that was done, and the values of the variables involved that caused the test to fail.

The idea is that you can just write every test as: ok EXPR, but you now get useful error messages. This mostly eliminates the need for the following functions from Test::More:

    # Can write...                   # Instead of...

    ok $got eq $expected;            is        $got, $expected;
    ok $got ne $unexpected;          isnt      $got, $unexpected;
    ok $got ~~ $expected;            is_deeply $got, $expected;
    ok $got =~ $pattern;             like      $got, $pattern;
    ok $got !~ $pattern;             unlike    $got, $pattern;
    ok $obj->isa($classname);        is_ok     $got, $classname;
    ok $obj->can($methodname);       can_ok    $obj, $methodname;

INTERFACE

ok EXPR

ok EXPR, DESC

The ok keyword works exactly like the ok functions of Test::Simple and Test::More. The only difference in behaviour is in the detail of the diagnostics issued when the test fails.

DIAGNOSTICS

None (apart from the diagnostics issued by failing tests).

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Test::Expr requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Requires Perl v5.14 and the Keyword::Declare module.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Due to a problem with regex compilation under Perl v5.20, this module is absurdly and unusably slow under that release. This issue does not arise in any other supported release of Perl.

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-test-expr@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Damian Conway <DCONWAY@CPAN.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2017, Damian Conway <DCONWAY@CPAN.org>. All rights reserved.

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

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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