NAME

Test::Mock::Cmd - Mock system(), exec(), and qx() for testing

VERSION

This document describes Test::Mock::Cmd version 0.2

SYNOPSIS

    use Test::Mock::Cmd \&my_cmd_mocker;

or

    use Test::Mock::Cmd \&my_mock_system, \&my_mock_exec, \&my_mock_qx;

DESCRIPTION

Mock system(), exec(), qx() (AKA `` and readpipe()) with your own functions in order to test code that may call them.

Some uses might be:

1. avoid actually running the system command, just pretend we did (simulate [un]expected output, return values, etc)

2. test various return value handling (e.g. the system command core dumps how does the object handle that)

3. test that the arguments that will be passed to a system command are correct

4. etc etc

INTERFACE

Commence mocking

Per the synopsis, you can provide import() with 1 code reference to replace all 3 functions or 3 code references to replace system(), exec(), and qx() (in that order).

Caveat

Any code loaded before the mock functions are setup will retain normal system(), etc behavior. (even if the system() does not happen until much later!)

   use X; # has functions that call system()
   use Test::Mock::Cmd ...
   use Y; # has functions that call system()
   X::i_call_system(...); # normal system() happens
   Y::i_call_system(...); # mocked system() happens

Getting access to the original, un-mocked, functionality.

None of these are exportable.

Test::Mock::Cmd::orig_system()

Original, not-mocked "system_LIST" in perlfunc

Test::Mock::Cmd::orig_exec()

Original, not-mocked "exec" in perlfunc

Test::Mock::Cmd::orig_qx()

Original, not-mocked "readpipe" in perlfunc

DIAGNOSTICS

Not a CODE reference

The given argument is not a code reference and should be.

Test::Mock::Cmd->import() requires 1 or 3 code references as arguments

You are not passing in the required one or three arguments.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Test::Mock::Cmd requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

None.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

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

See Also

Test::MockCommand for a more complex (and much heavier) object based approach to this.

AUTHOR

Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2011, Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>. 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.

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cpanm Test::Mock::Cmd

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Test::Mock::Cmd