App::Yath - Yet Another Test Harness (Test2-Harness) Command Line Interface (CLI)
PLEASE NOTE: Test2::Harness is still experimental, it can all change at any time. Documentation and tests have not been written yet!
This is the primary documentation for yath, App::Yath, Test2::Harness.
yath
The canonical source of up-to-date command options are the help output when using $ yath help and $ yath help COMMAND.
$ yath help
$ yath help COMMAND
This document is mainly for an overview of yath usage, and common recipes.
To use Test2::Harness you use the yath command. Yath will find the tests (or use the ones you specify), and run them. As it runs it will output diagnostics information such as failures. At the end yath will print a summary of the test run.
yath can be thought of as a more powerful alternative to prove (Test::Harness)
prove
These are common resipes for using yath.
$ yath
Simply running yath with no arguments means "Run all tests for the current project". Yath will look for tests in ./t, ./t2, and ./test.pl, running any that are found.
./t
./t2
./test.pl
Normally this implies the test command, but will instead imply the run command if a persistent test runner is detected.
test
run
Yath has the ability to preload modules. Yath normally forks to start new tests, so preloading can reduce the time spent loading modules over and over in each test.
Note that some tests may depend on certain modules not being loaded. In these cases you can add the # HARNESS-NO-PRELOAD directive to the top of the test files that cannot use preload.
# HARNESS-NO-PRELOAD
Any module can be preloaded:
$ yath -PMoose
You can preload as many modules as you want:
$ yath -PList::Util -PScalar::Util
If your preload is a subclass of Test2::Harness::Preload then more complex preload behavior is possible. See the <Test2::Harness::Preload> docs for more info.
You can turn on logging very easily, the filename of the log will be printed at the end.
$ yath -L ... Wrote log file: test-logs/2017-09-12~22:44:34~1505281474~25709.jsonl
The event log can be quite large, it is better to compress it with bzip2
$ yath -B ... Wrote log file: test-logs/2017-09-12~22:44:34~1505281474~25709.jsonl.bz2
Or you can use gzip:
$ yath -G ... Wrote log file: test-logs/2017-09-12~22:44:34~1505281474~25709.jsonl.gz
-B and -G both imply -L.
-B
-G
-L
You can replay a test run from a log file:
$ yath test-logs/2017-09-12~22:44:34~1505281474~25709.jsonl.bz2
This will be significantly faster than the initial run as no tests are actually being executed. All events are simply read from the log, and processed by the harness.
You can change display options, and limit rendering/processing to specific test jobs from the run:
$ yath test-logs/2017-09-12~22:44:34~1505281474~25709.jsonl.bz2 -v 5 10
Note: This is done using the $ yath replay ... command. The replay command is implied if the first argument is a log file.
$ yath replay ...
replay
The -T option will cause each test file to report how long it took to run.
-T
$ yath -T ( PASSED ) job 1 t/App/Yath.t ( TIME ) job 1 0.06942s on wallclock (0.07 usr 0.01 sys + 0.00 cusr 0.00 csys = 0.08 CPU)
yath supports starting a yath session that waits for tests to run. This is very useful if combined with preload.
This starts the server, many options available to the 'test' command will work here, but not all. See $ yath help start for more info.
$ yath help start
$ yath start
This will run tests using the persistent runner. By default it will search for tests just like the 'test' command. Many options available to the test command will work for this as well. See $ yath help run for more details.
$ yath help run
$ yath run
Stopping a persistent runner is easy
$ yath stop
The which command will tell you which persistent runner will be used. Yath sreaches for the persistent runner in the current directory, then searches in parent directories until it either hits root, or finds the persistent runner tracking file.
which
$ yath which
The watch command will tail the runners log files.
watch
$ yath watch
You can use preloads with the yath start command. In this case yath will track all the modules pulled in during preload, if any of them changes the server will reload itself to bring in the changes. Further, modified modules will be blacklisted so that they are not preloaded on the next reloads. This behavior is useful if you are actively working on a module that is normally preloaded.
yath start
$ yath init
The above command will create test.pl. test.pl is automatically run by most build utils, in which case only the exit value matters. The generated test.pl will run yath and excute all tests in the ./t and/or ./t2 directories. Tests in ./t will ALSO be run by prove, Tests in ./t2 will only be run by yath.
test.pl
You can write a .yath.rc file. The file format is very simple, use [COMMAND] sections to start the configuration for a command. Under the section you can provide any options normally allowed by the command. When yath is run inside your project it will use the config specified in the rc file, unless overriden by command line options. Comments start with a semi-colon.
.yath.rc
[COMMAND]
Example .yath.rc:
[test] -B ;Always write a log, compressed with BZip2 [start] -PMoose ;Always preload Moose with a persistent runner
yath will recognise a number of directive comments placed near the top of any test files. These directives should be placed after the SHBANG line, but before any real code or comments. These may be placed AFTER use and require statements.
use
require
#!/usr/bin/perl # HARNESS-NO-FORK ...
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # HARNESS-NO-FORK ...
#!/usr/bin/perl # blah # HARNESS-NO-FORK ...
#!/usr/bin/perl print "hi\n"; # HARNESS-NO-FORK ...
#!/usr/bin/perl # HARNESS-NO-PRELOAD
Use this if your test will fail when modules are preloaded. This will tell yath to start a new perl process to run the script instead of forking with preloaded modules.
Currently this implies HARNESS-NO-FORK, but that may not always be the case.
#!/usr/bin/perl # HARNESS-NO-FORK
Use this if your test file cannot run in a forked process, but instead must be run directly with a new perl process.
This implies HARNESS-NO-PRELOAD.
yath usually uses the Test2::Formatter::Stream formatter instead of TAP. Some tests depend on using a TAP formatter. This option will make yath use Test2::Formatter::TAP or Test::Builder::Formatter.
c<yath> will usually kill a test if no events occur within a timeout (default 60 seconds). You can add this directive to tests that are expected to trip the timeout, but should be allowed to continue.
This lets you tell yath that the test file is long-running. This is primarily used when concurrency is turned on in order to run longer tests earlier, and concurrently with shorter ones. There is also a yath option to skip all long category tests.
This category is set automatically if HARNESS-NO-TIMEOUT is set.
This lets you tell yath that the test is medium-length.
This category is set automatically if HARNESS-NO-FORK or HARNESS-NO-PRELOAD are set.
This lets you tell yath that the test cannot be run concurrently with other tests. Yath will hold off and run these tests 1 at a time after all other tests.
This is the default category.
This section documents the App::Yath module itself.
This is the entire yath script, comments removed.
#!/usr/bin/env perl use App::Yath(\@ARGV, \$App::Yath::RUN); exit($App::Yath::RUN->());
This will find, load, and process the command as found via @argv processing. It will set $runref to a coderef that should be executed at runtime (IE not in the BEGIN block implied by use.
@argv
$runref
BEGIN
Please note that statements after the import may never be reached. A source filter may be used to rewrite the rest of the file to be the source of a running test.
Print a message to STDOUT.
Run a command identified by $cmd_class and $cmd_name, using \@argv as input.
$cmd_class
$cmd_name
\@argv
Determine what command should be used based on \@argv. \@argv may be modified depending on what it contains.
Load a command by name, returns the class of the command.
The source code repository for Test2-Harness can be found at http://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Harness/.
Copyright 2017 Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/
To install Test2::Harness, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Test2::Harness
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Test2::Harness
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.