Speccing Test.pm?

Howdy,

The test suite is considered "official" as in "everything that passes
the (completed) test suite may name itself Perl 6", and nearly all of
these files 'use Test'; However we don't ship an "official" Test.pm, nor
do we define which test functions it should contain and export by
default, nor their semantics.

Now this may sound a bit theoretical and far-fetched, but we've actually
encountered test files that contain tests which are only in Rakudo's
Test.pm (probably my fault), and otoh there are a few functions in pugs'
Test.pm that are not used (for example unlike(), which is only used in
t/02-test-pm/1-basic.t to test unlike()).

So how should we proceed? Should I assemble a list of commonly used test
functions and remove all others both in the Test.pm's and the test files?

And then? Spec it? Or ship a prototype Test.pm as "official"?

Cheers,
Moritz

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Moritz Lenz
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• Speccing Test.pm? by Moritz Lenz
• Re: Speccing Test.pm? by Patrick R. Michaud
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• Re: Speccing Test.pm? by Geoffrey Broadwell
• Re: Speccing Test.pm? by Mark J. Reed
• Re: Speccing Test.pm? by Patrick R. Michaud
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