NAME

       Test::Object - Thoroughly testing objects via registered handlers

SYNOPSIS

         ###################################################################
         # In your test module, register test handlers again class names   #
         ###################################################################

         package My::ModuleTester;

         use Test::More;
         use Test::Object;

         # Foo::Bar is a subclass of Foo
         Test::Object->register(
               class => 'Foo',
               tests => 5,
               code  => \&foo_ok,
               );
         Test::Object->register(
               class => 'Foo::Bar',
               # No fixed number of tests
               code  => \&foobar_ok,
               );

         sub foo_ok {
               my $object = shift;
               ok( $object->foo, '->foo returns true' );
         }

         sub foobar_ok {
               my $object = shift;
               is( $object->foo, 'bar', '->foo returns "bar"' );
         }

         1;

         ###################################################################
         # In test script, test object against all registered classes      #
         ###################################################################

         #!/usr/bin/perl -w

         use Test::More 'no_plan';
         use Test::Object;
         use My::ModuleTester;

         my $object = Foo::Bar->new;
         isa_ok( $object, 'Foo::Bar' );
         object_ok( $object );

DESCRIPTION

       In situations where you have deep trees of classes, there is a common situation in which
       you test a module 4 or 5 subclasses down, which should follow the correct behaviour of not
       just the subclass, but of all the parent classes.

       This should be done to ensure that the implementation of a subclass has not somehow
       "broken" the object's behaviour in a more general sense.

       "Test::Object" is a testing package designed to allow you to easily test what you believe
       is a valid object against the expected behaviour of all of the classes in its inheritance
       tree in one single call.

       To do this, you "register" tests (in the form of CODE or function references) with
       "Test::Object", with each test associated with a particular class.

       When you call "object_ok" in your test script, "Test::Object" will check the object
       against all registered tests. For each class that your object responds to
       "$object->isa($class)" for, the appropriate testing function will be called.

       Doing it this way allows adapter objects and other things that respond to "isa"
       differently that the default to still be tested against the classes that it is advertising
       itself as correctly.

       This also means that more than one test might be "counted" for each call to "object_ok".
       You should account for this correctly in your expected test count.

SUPPORT

       Bugs should be submitted via the CPAN bug tracker, located at

       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Object>

       For other issues, contact the author.

AUTHOR

       Adam Kennedy <cpan@ali.as>

SEE ALSO

       <http://ali.as/>, Test::More, Test::Builder::Tester, Test::Class

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2005, 2006 Adam Kennedy. All rights reserved.

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

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.