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NAME
       Test::Tester - Ease testing test modules built with Test::Builder
SYNOPSIS
         use Test::Tester tests => 6;
         use Test::MyStyle;
         check_test(
           sub {
             is_mystyle_eq("this", "that", "not eq");
           },
           {
             ok => 0, # expect this to fail
             name => "not eq",
             diag => "Expected: 'this'\nGot: 'that'",
           }
         );
       or
         use Test::Tester tests => 6;
         use Test::MyStyle;
         check_test(
           sub {
             is_mystyle_qr("this", "that", "not matching");
           },
           {
             ok => 0, # expect this to fail
             name => "not matching",
             diag => qr/Expected: 'this'\s+Got: 'that'/,
           }
         );
       or
         use Test::Tester;
         use Test::More tests => 3;
         use Test::MyStyle;
         my ($premature, @results) = run_tests(
           sub {
             is_database_alive("dbname");
           }
         );
         # now use Test::More::like to check the diagnostic output
         like($results[0]->{diag}, "/^Database ping took \\d+ seconds$"/, "diag");
DESCRIPTION
       If you have written a test module based on Test::Builder then
       Test::Tester allows you to test it with the minimum of effort.
HOW TO USE (THE EASY WAY)
       From version 0.08 Test::Tester no longer requires you to included
       anything special in your test modules. All you need to do is
         use Test::Tester;
       in your test script before any other Test::Builder based modules and
       away you go.
       Other modules based on Test::Builder can be used to help with the
       testing.  In fact you can even use functions from your module to test
       other functions from the same module (while this is possible it is
       probably not a good idea, if your module has bugs, then using it to
       test itself may give the wrong answers).
       The easiest way to test is to do something like
         check_test(
           sub { is_mystyle_eq("this", "that", "not eq") },
           {
             ok => 0, # we expect the test to fail
             name => "not eq",
             diag => "Expected: 'this'\nGot: 'that'",
           }
         );
       this will execute the is_mystyle_eq test, capturing it's results and
       checking that they are what was expected.
       You may need to examine the test results in a more flexible way, for
       example, the diagnostic output may be quite long or complex or it may
       involve something that you cannot predict in advance like a timestamp.
       In this case you can get direct access to the test results:
         my ($premature, @results) = run_tests(
           sub {
             is_database_alive("dbname");
           }
         );
         like($result[0]->{diag}, "/^Database ping took \\d+ seconds$"/, "diag");
       or
         check_test(
           sub { is_mystyle_qr("this", "that", "not matching") },
           {
             ok => 0, # we expect the test to fail
             name => "not matching",
             diag => qr/Expected: 'this'\s+Got: 'that'/,
           }
         );
       We cannot predict how long the database ping will take so we use
       Test::More's like() test to check that the diagnostic string is of the
       right form.
HOW TO USE (THE HARD WAY)
       This is here for backwards compatibility only
       Make your module use the Test::Tester::Capture object instead of the
       Test::Builder one. How to do this depends on your module but assuming
       that your module holds the Test::Builder object in $Test and that all
       your test routines access it through $Test then providing a function
       something like this
         sub set_builder
         {
           $Test = shift;
         }
       should allow your test scripts to do
         Test::YourModule::set_builder(Test::Tester->capture);
       and after that any tests inside your module will captured.
TEST RESULTS
       The result of each test is captured in a hash. These hashes are the
       same as the hashes returned by Test::Builder->details but with a couple
       of extra fields.
       These fields are documented in Test::Builder in the details() function
       ok
         Did the test pass?
       actual_ok
         Did the test really pass? That is, did the pass come from
         Test::Builder->ok() or did it pass because it was a TODO test?
       name
         The name supplied for the test.
       type
         What kind of test? Possibilities include, skip, todo etc. See
         Test::Builder for more details.
       reason
         The reason for the skip, todo etc. See Test::Builder for more
         details.
       These fields are exclusive to Test::Tester.
       diag
         Any diagnostics that were output for the test. This only includes
         diagnostics output after the test result is declared.
         Note that Test::Builder ensures that any diagnostics end in a \n and
         it in earlier versions of Test::Tester it was essential that you have
         the final \n in your expected diagnostics. From version 0.10 onward,
         Test::Tester will add the \n if you forgot it. It will not add a \n
         if you are expecting no diagnostics. See below for help tracking down
         hard to find space and tab related problems.
       depth
         This allows you to check that your test module is setting the correct
         value for $Test::Builder::Level and thus giving the correct file and
         line number when a test fails. It is calculated by looking at
         caller() and $Test::Builder::Level. It should count how many
         subroutines there are before jumping into the function you are
         testing. So for example in
           run_tests( sub { my_test_function("a", "b") } );
         the depth should be 1 and in
           sub deeper { my_test_function("a", "b") }
           run_tests(sub { deeper() });
         depth should be 2, that is 1 for the sub {} and one for deeper().
         This might seem a little complex but if your tests look like the
         simple examples in this doc then you don't need to worry as the depth
         will always be 1 and that's what Test::Tester expects by default.
         Note: if you do not specify a value for depth in check_test() then it
         automatically compares it against 1, if you really want to skip the
         depth test then pass in undef.
         Note: depth will not be correctly calculated for tests that run from
         a signal handler or an END block or anywhere else that hides the call
         stack.
       Some of Test::Tester's functions return arrays of these hashes, just
       like Test::Builder->details. That is, the hash for the first test will
       be array element 1 (not 0). Element 0 will not be a hash it will be a
       string which contains any diagnostic output that came before the first
       test. This should usually be empty, if it's not, it means something
       output diagnostics before any test results showed up.
SPACES AND TABS
       Appearances can be deceptive, especially when it comes to emptiness. If
       you are scratching your head trying to work out why Test::Tester is
       saying that your diagnostics are wrong when they look perfectly right
       then the answer is probably whitespace. From version 0.10 on,
       Test::Tester surrounds the expected and got diag values with single
       quotes to make it easier to spot trailing whitespace. So in this
       example
         # Got diag (5 bytes):
         # 'abcd '
         # Expected diag (4 bytes):
         # 'abcd'
       it is quite clear that there is a space at the end of the first string.
       Another way to solve this problem is to use colour and inverse video on
       an ANSI terminal, see below COLOUR below if you want this.
       Unfortunately this is sometimes not enough, neither colour nor quotes
       will help you with problems involving tabs, other non-printing
       characters and certain kinds of problems inherent in Unicode. To deal
       with this, you can switch Test::Tester into a mode whereby all "tricky"
       characters are shown as \{xx}. Tricky characters are those with ASCII
       code less than 33 or higher than 126. This makes the output more
       difficult to read but much easier to find subtle differences between
       strings. To turn on this mode either call "show_space()" in your test
       script or set the "TESTTESTERSPACE" environment variable to be a true
       value. The example above would then look like
         # Got diag (5 bytes):
         # abcd\x{20}
         # Expected diag (4 bytes):
         # abcd
COLOUR
       If you prefer to use colour as a means of finding tricky whitespace
       characters then you can set the "TESTTESTCOLOUR" environment variable
       to a comma separated pair of colours, the first for the foreground, the
       second for the background. For example "white,red" will print white
       text on a red background. This requires the Term::ANSIColor module. You
       can specify any colour that would be acceptable to the
       Term::ANSIColor::color function.
       If you spell colour differently, that's no problem. The
       "TESTTESTERCOLOR" variable also works (if both are set then the British
       spelling wins out).
EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
       ($premature, @results) = run_tests(\&test_sub)
       \&test_sub is a reference to a subroutine.
       run_tests runs the subroutine in $test_sub and captures the results of
       any tests inside it. You can run more than 1 test inside this
       subroutine if you like.
       $premature is a string containing any diagnostic output from before the
       first test.
       @results is an array of test result hashes.
       cmp_result(\%result, \%expect, $name)
       \%result is a ref to a test result hash.
       \%expect is a ref to a hash of expected values for the test result.
       cmp_result compares the result with the expected values. If any
       differences are found it outputs diagnostics. You may leave out any
       field from the expected result and cmp_result will not do the
       comparison of that field.
       cmp_results(\@results, \@expects, $name)
       \@results is a ref to an array of test results.
       \@expects is a ref to an array of hash refs.
       cmp_results checks that the results match the expected results and if
       any differences are found it outputs diagnostics. It first checks that
       the number of elements in \@results and \@expects is the same. Then it
       goes through each result checking it against the expected result as in
       cmp_result() above.
       ($premature, @results) = check_tests(\&test_sub, \@expects, $name)
       \&test_sub is a reference to a subroutine.
       \@expect is a ref to an array of hash refs which are expected test
       results.
       check_tests combines run_tests and cmp_tests into a single call. It
       also checks if the tests died at any stage.
       It returns the same values as run_tests, so you can further examine the
       test results if you need to.
       ($premature, @results) = check_test(\&test_sub, \%expect, $name)
       \&test_sub is a reference to a subroutine.
       \%expect is a ref to an hash of expected values for the test result.
       check_test is a wrapper around check_tests. It combines run_tests and
       cmp_tests into a single call, checking if the test died. It assumes
       that only a single test is run inside \&test_sub and include a test to
       make sure this is true.
       It returns the same values as run_tests, so you can further examine the
       test results if you need to.
       show_space()
       Turn on the escaping of characters as described in the SPACES AND TABS
       section.
HOW IT WORKS
       Normally, a test module (let's call it Test:MyStyle) calls
       Test::Builder->new to get the Test::Builder object. Test::MyStyle calls
       methods on this object to record information about test results. When
       Test::Tester is loaded, it replaces Test::Builder's new() method with
       one which returns a Test::Tester::Delegate object. Most of the time
       this object behaves as the real Test::Builder object. Any methods that
       are called are delegated to the real Test::Builder object so everything
       works perfectly.  However once we go into test mode, the method calls
       are no longer passed to the real Test::Builder object, instead they go
       to the Test::Tester::Capture object. This object seems exactly like the
       real Test::Builder object, except, instead of outputting test results
       and diagnostics, it just records all the information for later
       analysis.
CAVEATS
       Support for calling Test::Builder->note is minimal. It's implemented as
       an empty stub, so modules that use it will not crash but the calls are
       not recorded for testing purposes like the others. Patches welcome.
SEE ALSO
       Test::Builder the source of testing goodness. Test::Builder::Tester for
       an alternative approach to the problem tackled by Test::Tester -
       captures the strings output by Test::Builder. This means you cannot get
       separate access to the individual pieces of information and you must
       predict exactly what your test will output.
AUTHOR
       This module is copyright 2005 Fergal Daly <fergal AT esatclear.ie>, some
       parts are based on other people's work.
       Plan handling lifted from Test::More. written by Michael G Schwern
       <schwern AT pobox.com>.
       Test::Tester::Capture is a cut down and hacked up version of
       Test::Builder.  Test::Builder was written by chromatic
       <chromatic AT wgz.org> and Michael G Schwern <schwern AT pobox.com>.
LICENSE
       Under the same license as Perl itself
       See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

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