Test2::Require::Threads - Skip a test file unless the system supports threading
It is fairly common to write tests that need to use threads. Not all systems support threads. This library does the hard work of checking if threading is supported on the current system. If threading is not supported then this will skip all tests and exit true.
use Test2::Require::Threads; ... Code that uses threads ...
Checking if the current system supports threading is not simple, here is an example of how to do it:
use Config; sub CAN_THREAD { # Threads are not reliable before 5.008001 return 0 unless $] >= 5.008001; return 0 unless $Config{'useithreads'}; # Devel::Cover currently breaks with threads return 0 if $INC{'Devel/Cover.pm'}; return 1; }
Duplicating this non-trivial code in all tests that need to use threads is dumb. It is easy to forget bits, or get it wrong. On top of these checks you also need to tell the harness that no tests should run and why.
Skip the test file if the system does not support forking.
Test2::Require::Threads uses Test2 under the hood.
The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at http://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.
Copyright 2015 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.
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To install Test2::Suite, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Test2::Suite
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Test2::Suite
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