NAME

Meta::Baseline::Test - library to help you with testing.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Test.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.32

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Baseline::Test qw();
        Meta::Baseline::Test::redirect_on();

DESCRIPTION

SPECIAL STDERR FILE

This library is intended to give you services for writing nice testing scripts for the system. Have fun.

FUNCTIONS

        BEGIN()
        redirect_on()
        redirect_off()
        set_vars_for($$)
        get_user()
        get_password()
        get_host()
        get_domain()
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

This method inits the testing module by reading its XML configuration file.

redirect_on()

This will block stdout and stderr output so tests wont be messy.

redirect_off()

This will release the stdout and stderr blocks.

set_vars_for($$)

This will set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable for running C++ code to the given platform/architecture combination.

get_user()

This method will return a user name of a user that can be abused in tests.

get_password()

This method will return the password of the user which can be abused in tests.

get_host($)

This method will return the hostname of a machine that can be abused in tests.

get_domain($)

This method will return a valid domain name which can be used in tests.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module. Currently this method just prints out the various configuration variables.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV initial code brought in
        0.01 MV make quality checks on perl code
        0.02 MV more perl checks
        0.03 MV check that all uses have qw
        0.04 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
        0.05 MV more on tests/more checks to perl
        0.06 MV more perl quality
        0.07 MV cleanup tests change
        0.08 MV correct die usage
        0.09 MV perl code quality
        0.10 MV more perl quality
        0.11 MV more perl quality
        0.12 MV perl documentation
        0.13 MV more perl quality
        0.14 MV perl qulity code
        0.15 MV more perl code quality
        0.16 MV more perl quality
        0.17 MV revision change
        0.18 MV languages.pl test online
        0.19 MV perl packaging
        0.20 MV md5 project
        0.21 MV database
        0.22 MV perl module versions in files
        0.23 MV movies and small fixes
        0.24 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.25 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.26 MV website construction
        0.27 MV improve the movie db xml
        0.28 MV web site automation
        0.29 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.30 MV bring movie data
        0.31 MV teachers project
        0.32 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), Meta::Baseline::Aegis(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), Meta::Utils::Utils(3), XML::Simple(3), strict(3)

TODO

-turn this package to an object and use it as an object with an constructor which will read all data (user,host,connection) from an XML file.

-the redirection routines dont really work as they do not restore the old settings for stdout and stderr (what about STDLOG ?). fix that.

-make this module just hold a connection object which will be read from somewhere which describes a connection to a database which can be abused.

-make the redirection routine save the stderr and stdout to files and print them if something goes wrong.

cpanm Meta::Init

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Meta::Init