NAME

Test::Legacy - Test.pm workalike that plays well with other Test modules

SYNOPSIS

  # use Test;
  use Test::Legacy;

  ...leave all else the same...

DESCRIPTION

Test.pm suffers from the problem of not working well with other Test modules. If you have a test written using Test.pm and want to use, for example, Test::Exception you cannot.

Test::Legacy is a reimplementation of Test.pm using Test::Builder. What this means is Test::Legacy can be used with other Test::Builder derived modules (such as Test::More, Test::Exception, and most everything released in the last couple years) in the same test script.

Test::Legacy strives to work as much like Test.pm as possible. It allows one to continue to use Test.pm while taking advantage of additional Test modules.

DIFFERENCES

Test::Legacy does have some differences from Test.pm. Here are the known ones.

• diagnostics

  Because Test::Legacy uses Test::Builder for most of the work, failure diagnostics are not the same as Test.pm and are unlikely to ever be.

• onfail

  Currently the onfail subroutine does not get passed a description of test failures. This is slated to be fixed in the future.

AUTHOR

Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2004 by Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>.

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

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

NOTES

This is an emulation of Test.pm 1.25.

SEE ALSO

Test, Test::More