About CPAN testing

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Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, i want to become a CPAN tester but i don't know how to start it and i need some tutorials such as step by step can any one please help me out?

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Re: About CPAN testing by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 01, 2013 at 13:30 UTC
I think http://wiki.cpantesters.org/ - http://www.cpantesters.org/ is what you're looking for.	[reply]
Re^2: About CPAN testing by Anonymous Monk on Feb 01, 2013 at 13:41 UTC
do i have to be expert in perl , for testing or novice user knowledge is enough?	[reply]
Re^3: About CPAN testing by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 01, 2013 at 13:46 UTC
You certainly don't have to be an expert in Perl, but you will need to (learn to) diagnose why the test suite of a distribution hangs on your machine, and how to blacklist those distributions. If you want to provide more help, you will have to have at least some knowledge about your platform, and about the likely expectations of the programmer that went wrong on your platform. To find these faulty assumptions, a bit of Perl knowledge is needed.	[reply]
Re^4: About CPAN testing by Anonymous Monk on Feb 01, 2013 at 13:49 UTC
Re^3: About CPAN testing by Anonymous Monk on Feb 01, 2013 at 13:48 UTC
you don't have to be an expert http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/QuickStart, http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANReporterSmoker	[reply]
Re: About CPAN testing by Anonymous Monk on Feb 01, 2013 at 19:54 UTC
You can get started by downloading these modules: Crypt::SSLeay Task::Metabase Task::CPAN::Reporter After installation of those three modules, you'll need to run metabase-profile. Next, go into the cpan shell and run: `o conf init test_report o conf commit` [download] Then test as you would usually do with cpan.	[reply] [d/l]

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