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On 21 January 2013 17:10, Ricardo SIGNES <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Ricardo SIGNES > # Please include the string: [perl #116483] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=116483 > > > > > Many tests below ./t still generate TAP by "hand", rather than using library > functions. As explained in perlhack/TESTING, tests in ./t are written in a > particular way to test that more complex constructions actually work before > using them routinely. Hence they don't use Test::More, but instead there is an > intentionally simpler library, ./t/test.pl. However, quite a few tests in ./t > have not been refactored to use it. Refactoring any of these tests, one at a > time, is a useful thing TODO. > > The subdirectories base, cmd and comp, which contain the most basic tests, > **must** be excluded from this task. > Also probably tests in t/re. A lot of the test infrastructure uses regexes to do its tests. At one point we were really anal about this for regexps. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next