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NAME

       Test2::Manual::Testing::Introduction - Introduction to testing with Test2.

DESCRIPTION

       This tutorial is a beginners introduction to testing. This will take you through writing a
       test file, making assertions, and running your test.

BOILERPLATE

   THE TEST FILE
       Test files typically are placed inside the "t/" directory, and end with the ".t" file
       extension.

       "t/example.t":

           use Test2::V0;

           # Assertions will go here

           done_testing;

       This is all the boilerplate you need.

       use Test2::V0;
           This loads a collection of testing tools that will be described later in the tutorial.
           This will also turn on "strict" and "warnings" for you.

       done_testing;
           This should always be at the end of your test files. This tells Test2 that you are
           done making assertions. This is important as "test2" will assume the test did not
           complete successfully without this, or some other form of test "plan".

   DIST CONFIG
       You should always list bundles and tools directly. You should not simply list Test2::Suite
       and call it done, bundles and tools may be moved out of Test2::Suite to their own dists at
       any time.

       Dist::Zilla

           [Prereqs / TestRequires]
           Test2::V0 = 0.000060

       ExtUtils::MakeMaker

           my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
             ...,
             "TEST_REQUIRES" => {
               "Test2::V0" => "0.000060"
             },
             ...
           );

       Module::Install

           test_requires 'Test2::V0' => '0.000060';

       Module::Build

           my $build = Module::Build->new(
               ...,
               test_requires => {
                   "Test2::V0" => "0.000060",
               },
               ...
           );

MAKING ASSERTIONS

       The most simple tool for making assertions is "ok()". "ok()" lets you assert that a
       condition is true.

           ok($CONDITION, "Description of the condition");

       Here is a complete "t/example.t":

           use Test2::V0;

           ok(1, "1 is true, so this will pass");

           done_testing;

RUNNING THE TEST

       Test files are simply scripts. Just like any other script you can run the test directly
       with perl. Another option is to use a test "harness" which runs the test for you, and
       provides extra information and checks the scripts exit value for you.

   RUN DIRECTLY
           $ perl -Ilib t/example.t

       Which should produce output like this:

           # Seeded srand with seed '20161028' from local date.
           ok 1 - 1 is true, so this will pass
           1..1

       If the test had failed ("ok(0, ...)") it would look like this:

           # Seeded srand with seed '20161028' from local date.
           not ok 1 - 0 is false, so this will fail
           1..1

       Test2 will also set the exit value of the script, a successful run will have an exit value
       of 0, a failed run will have a non-zero exit value.

   USING YATH
       The "yath" command line tool is provided by Test2::Harness which you may need to install
       yourself from cpan. "yath" is the harness written specifically for Test2.

           $ yath -Ilib t/example.t

       This will produce output similar to this:

           ( PASSED )  job  1    t/example.t

           ================================================================================

           Run ID: 1508027909

           All tests were successful!

       You can also request verbose output with the "-v" flag:

           $ yath -Ilib -v t/example.t

       Which produces:

           ( LAUNCH )  job  1    example.t
           (  NOTE  )  job  1    Seeded srand with seed '20171014' from local date.
           [  PASS  ]  job  1  + 1 is true, so this will pass
           [  PLAN  ]  job  1    Expected asserions: 1
           ( PASSED )  job  1    example.t

           ================================================================================

           Run ID: 1508028002

           All tests were successful!

   USING PROVE
       The "prove" command line tool is provided by the Test::Harness module which comes with
       most versions of perl. Test::Harness is dual-life, which means you can also install the
       latest version from cpan.

           $ prove -Ilib t/example.t

       This will produce output like this:

           example.t .. ok
           All tests successful.
           Files=1, Tests=1,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr  0.00 sys +  0.05 cusr  0.00 csys =  0.06 CPU)
           Result: PASS

       You can also request verbose output with the "-v" flag:

           $ prove -Ilib -v t/example.t

       The verbose output looks like this:

           example.t ..
           # Seeded srand with seed '20161028' from local date.
           ok 1 - 1 is true, so this will pass
           1..1
           ok
           All tests successful.
           Files=1, Tests=1,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr  0.00 sys +  0.06 cusr  0.00 csys =  0.08 CPU)
           Result: PASS

THE "PLAN"

       All tests need a "plan". The job of a plan is to make sure you ran all the tests you
       expected. The plan prevents a passing result from a test that exits before all the tests
       are run.

       There are 2 primary ways to set the plan:

       done_testing()
           The most common, and recommended way to set a plan is to add "done_testing" at the end
           of your test file. This will automatically calculate the plan for you at the end of
           the test. If the test were to exit early then "done_testing" would not run and no plan
           would be found, forcing a failure.

       plan($COUNT)
           The "plan()" function allows you to specify an exact number of assertions you want to
           run. If you run too many or too few assertions then the plan will not match and it
           will be counted as a failure. The primary problem with this way of planning is that
           you need to add up the number of assertions, and adjust the count whenever you update
           the test file.

           "plan()" must be used before all assertions, or after all assertions, it cannot be
           done in the middle of making assertions.

ADDITIONAL ASSERTION TOOLS

       The Test2::V0 bundle provides a lot more than "ok()", "plan()", and "done_testing()". The
       biggest tools to note are:

       is($a, $b, $description)
           "is()" allows you to compare 2 structures and insure they are identical. You can use
           it for simple string comparisons, or even deep data structure comparisons.

               is("foo", "foo", "Both strings are identical");

               is(["foo", 1], ["foo", 1], "Both arrays contain the same elements");

       like($a, $b, $description)
           "like()" is similar to "is()" except that it only checks items listed on the right, it
           ignores any extra values found on the left.

               like([1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 3], "Passes, the extra element on the left is ignored");

           You can also used regular expressions on the right hand side:

               like("foo bar baz", qr/bar/, "The string matches the regex, this passes");

           You can also nest the regexes:

               like([1, 2, 'foo bar baz', 3], [1, 2, qr/bar/], "This passes");

SEE ALSO

       Test2::Manual - Primary index of the manual.

SOURCE

       The source code repository for Test2-Manual can be found at
       https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.

MAINTAINERS

       Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

AUTHORS

       Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2018 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

       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/