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Great tutorial, and brilliant work! I completed your tutorial and read the rest of the documentation before I went beyond your celebrational espresso. The following is a condensed and simplified example of how I put your module to use in combination with chromatic's excellent Test::MockObject to test one of my own modules. Note that the enclosed snippet is untested, as i stripped away quite a bit of detail that I thought complicated the example. In the web app I work on at $firm, we channel all database access through a single component. The module I want to test queries the database and ranks entities according to certain criteria, using a simple formula. What I want to test here is the method that does the ranking.
I should perhaps be a bit sceptical that this test passes. I haven't twiddled and played much with the generators yet, so raising my confidence in the module demands some more playing around with numbers. I may of course have abused both Test::LectroTest and Test::MockObject. Abusing Test::LectroTest in that I actually calculate the expected score in the Property itself. This is of course error-prone, in I might introduce errors in the 'verification' code. When it comes to Test::MockObject, I must admit admit that I lack the experience to see the flaws in my logic. I'm sure some wiser monk will find something, though :) When it comes to answering your question about oversights in the tutorial, then I agree with stvn that you should give the generators more focus. Especially some help on how to limit ranges, and combining generators into complex structures. I found the answers I needed in the the Test::LectroTest::Generator manual, though, so it worked great as a quick start. I wondered where the name came from too, but after I found: The result is LectroTest, a horribly named, automatic, specification-based testing tool for Perl. on your homepage, I thought it better not to ask ;) All in all, I believe Test::LectroTest will become a valuable tool at work. Thank you very much :) pernod In reply to Test::LectroTest and Test::MockObject.
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