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Testing is usually the ugly part of Perl module authoring. Perl gives
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you a standard way to run tests with Test::Harness, and basic testing
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primitives with Test::More. After that you are pretty much on your own
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to develop a testing framework and philosophy. Test::More encourages you
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to make your own framework by subclassing Test::Builder, but that is not
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trivial.
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Test::Base gives you a way to write your own test framework base class
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that *is* trivial. In fact it is as simple as two lines:
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package MyTestFramework;
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use Test::Base -Base;
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A module called "MyTestFramework.pm" containing those two lines, will
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give all the power of Test::More and all the power of Test::Base to
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every test file that uses it. As you build up the capabilities of
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"MyTestFramework", your tests will have all of that power as well.
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