Capturing Human Intelligence - ApprovalTests is an open source assertion/verification library to aid testing. Test::Approvals is the ApprovalTests port for Perl.
For more information see: www.approvaltests.com
You can use ApprovalTests to verify objects that require more than
a simple assert including long strings, large arrays, and complex
hash structures and objects. Although modules exist which allow this
kind of testing, ApprovalTests really shines when you need a more
granular look at the test failure. Sometimes, trying to find a small
difference in a long string printed to STDOUT is just too hard!
ApprovalTests solves this problem by providing reporters which let you
view the test results in one of many popular diff utilities.
From CPAN ( http://search.cpan.org/~jrcounts/Test-Approvals/ ):
cpan install Test::Approvals
From PPM ( http://code.activestate.com/ppm/Test-Approvals/ ):
ppm install Test::Approvals
From source:
git clone https://github.com/approvals/Perl-Test-Approvals.git
cd Perl-Test-Approvals
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install
After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Test::Approvals
You can also look for information at:
GitHub
https://github.com/approvals/Perl-Test-Approvals
ApprovalTests Homepage
http://www.approvaltests.com
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