devel/p5-Test-Base 0.89p0 OpenBSD

Testing is usually the ugly part of Perl module authoring. Perl gives you a standard way to run tests with Test::Harness, and basic testing primitives with Test::More. After that you are pretty much on your own to develop a testing framework and philosophy. Test::More encourages you to make your own framework by subclassing Test::Builder, but that is not trivial.

Test::Base gives you a way to write your own test framework base class that *is* trivial. In fact it is as simple as two lines:

package MyTestFramework;
use Test::Base -Base;

A module called "MyTestFramework.pm" containing those two lines, will give all the power of Test::More and all the power of Test::Base to every test file that uses it. As you build up the capabilities of "MyTestFramework", your tests will have all of that power as well.