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From: "Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: perl/Git.pm: Writing a test suite
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:03:54 +0200
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2008/5/30 Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>:
> Git.pm doesn't currently have a test suite, and I think it should get one.
>
> Since Git.pm makes calls to the git binary, it would seem sensible to me to
> create mock output for the external calls, like Grit (a Ruby API) does it,
> here: http://github.com/mojombo/grit/tree/master/test/fixtures  (Having a
> complete test repository to test against like Ruby/Git (another API) at
> http://repo.or.cz/w/rubygit.git?a=tree;f=tests/files;hb=HEAD is probably too
> brittle and makes it hard to test edge cases.)
>
> I haven't done testing in perl before, so if someone wants to exchange ideas
> and/or help me get this set up, please post here or message me on IRC
> (lea_w/lea_1 on #git at Freenode).

Testing is big in the perl world. I suggest to start with reading :
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?testing
I'm not overloaded with tuits at the moment, but I'll try to review a
bit your testing patches when you post them here.