Ubuntu Manpage: HTML::Mason::Tests - Test harness for testing Mason

Provided by: libhtml-mason-perl_1.52-1_all

NAME

       HTML::Mason::Tests - Test harness for testing Mason

VERSION

       version 1.52

SYNOPSIS

        use HTML::Mason::Tests;

        my $group = HTML::Mason::Tests->new( name => 'name of group', description => 'tests something' );
        $group->add_test( name => 'foo',
                          description => 'tests foo',
                          component => <<'EOF'
        <%args>
        $foo => 1
        </%args>
        <% $foo %>
        EOF
                          expect => <<'EOF',
        1
        EOF
                        );

        $group->run;

DESCRIPTION

       This module is designed to automate as much as possible of the Mason test suite.  It does
       tasks like write component files to disk, call them, compare the actual results to the
       expected results, and more.  In addition, it also is capable of printing out useful
       information about test failures when run in verbose mode.  See the ADDITIONAL RUN MODES
       section for more information.

       It also makes sure that any given group of tests provides all the information needed to
       run them (test names, components and results, etc.).

       Now you have no excuse for writing new tests (and that goes double for me!).

METHODS

new
Takes the following parameters:

• name (required)

The name of the entire group of tests.

• description (required)

What this group tests.

• pre_test_cleanup (optional, default=1)

If this is true (the default), the component root and data directory will be deleted
both before and after running tests.

add_support
Takes the following parameters:

• path (required)

The path that other components will expect this component to be reachable at. All
paths are prepended with the group name. So '/bar' as a support component in the
'foo' group's ultimate path would be '/foo/bar'.

• component

Text of the support component. This parameter must have a value unless the
skip_component parameter is true.

• skip_component

If true, then the test harness will not write a component to disk for this test.

add_test
Takes the following parameters:

• name (required)

The name of this test.

• description (required)

What this test is testing.

• component (required)

Text of the component.

• path (optional)

The path that this component should written to. As with support components, this path
is prepended with the group's name. If no path is given, it uses call_path, if given,
otherwise it uses the name parameter.

• call_path (optional)

The path that should be used to call the component. If none is given, it will be
/<group name>/<test name>. If a value is given, it is still prepended by /<group
name>/.

• call_args (optional)

The arguments that should be passed to the component, in list or hash reference form.
If none is given, no arguments are passed.

• compiler_params

This is a hash reference of parameters to be passed to the Compiler->new method.

• interp_params

This is a hash reference of parameters to be passed to the Interp->new method.

• interp

Provide an HTML::Mason::Interp object to be used for the test.

• todo

If this is given, the test will be treated as a todo test, so it will be expected to
fail. This should be a string.

One of the following three options is required:

• expect

The text expected as a result of calling the component. This parameter is _not_
required when running in Create mode.

• expect_error

A regex that will be matched against the error returned from the component execution.

• no_warnings

If true, this means that the test expects to run without generating any warnings. If
warnings are generated, the test fails.

• expect_warnings

A regex that will be matched against any warnings output when running the component.

• skip_expect

This causes the component to be run but its output is ignored. However, if the
component execution causes an error this will cause the test to fail. This is used in
a few situations where it is necessary to just run a component as part the preparation
for another test.

run
Run the tests in the group.

Class methods
These methods are provided since some tests may need to know these values.

base_path
The base path under which the component root and data directory for the tests are created.

comp_root
Returns the component root directory.

data_dir
Return the data directory

check_output ( actual => $actual_output, expect => $expected_output )
Given the parameters shown above, this method will check to see if the two are equal. If
they're not equal, it will print out an error message attempting to highlight the
difference.

ADDITIONAL RUN MODES

The following additional modes are available for running tests.

Verbose mode
To turn this on, set the environment variables MASON_VERBOSE or MASON_DEBUG as true or run
the tests as 'make test TEST_VERBOSE=1'. In this mode, the "run" method will output
information about tests as they are run. If a test fails, then it will also show the
cause of the failure.

Debug mode
To turn this on, set the MASON_DEBUG environment variable to a true value. In this mode,
the "run" method will print detailed information of its actions. This mode includes the
output printed in VERBOSE mode.

No cleanup mode
Setting the MASON_NO_CLEANUP environment variable will tell the module to not clean up
generated data from running the tests. This includes the components written to disk and
the data directory used during testing. This can be useful when debugging.

Create mode
If the individual tests are run from the command line with the '--create' flag, then
instead of checking the output of a component, the test harness will simply output its
results. This allows you to cut and paste these results back into the test file (assuming
they are correct!).

Running and/or skipping selected tests
You can run just some of a test file with the '--tests-to-run' flag or the
MASON_TESTS_TO_RUN environment variable. Similarly you can skip specific tests with the
'--tests-to-skip' flag or the MASON_TESTS_TO_SKIP environment variable.

The value of either flag is a comma-separated list of one or more of

[test_file_name:](test_number|test_name|*)

e.g.

perl ./01-syntax.t --tests-to-run=3,5
MASON_TESTS_TO_SKIP=fake_percent,empty_percents perl ./01-syntax.t
MASON_TESTS_TO_RUN="misc:autohandler, request:*, interp:private1" make test

Subclassing this module
You can run tests with your own Tests.pm subclass using the '--tests-class' flag or the
MASON_TESTS_CLASS environment variable. The value is a fully qualified package name that
will be loaded before each test file is run. e.g.

perl ./01-syntax.t --tests-class=HTML::Mason::Tests::MyTests
MASON_TESTS_CLASS=HTML::Mason::Tests::MyTests make test

For example, if you have created your own lexer subclass and want to make sure that tests
still pass with it, create a Tests subclass that overrides the _make_interp method to use
your subclass:

sub _make_interp
{
my ($self, %interp_params) = @_;

return HTML::Mason::Interp->new
( lexer_class => HTML::Mason::MyLexer,
%interp_params );
}

AUTHORS

       •   Jonathan Swartz <swartz@pobox.com>

       •   Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

       •   Ken Williams <ken@mathforum.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Jonathan Swartz.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.