1 Revision history for Perl extension Test::Harness
3 2.40 Tue Dec 30 20:38:59 CST 2003
5 * Test::Harness::Straps should now properly quote on VMS.
8 * prove now takes a -l option to add lib/ to @INC. Now when you're
9 building a module, you don't have to do a make before you run
10 the prove. Thanks to David Wheeler for the idea.
13 * Internal functions corestatus() and canonfailed() prepended with
14 underscores, to indicate such.
16 * Gratuitous text-only changes in Test::Harness::Iterator.
18 * All tests now do their use_ok() in a BEGIN block. Some of the
19 use_ok() calls were too much of a hassle to put into a BEGIN block,
20 so I changed them to regular use calls.
23 2.38 Mon Nov 24 22:36:18 CST 2003
24 Released. See changes below.
26 2.37_03 Tue Nov 18 23:51:38 CST 2003
28 * prove -V now shows the Perl version being used.
29 * Now there's a HARNESS_DEBUG flag that shows diagnostics as the
30 harness runs the tests. This is different from HARNESS_VERBOSE,
31 which shows test output, but not information about the harness
33 * Added _command_line() to the Strap API.
36 * Bad interaction with Module::Build: The strap was only checking
37 $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} for definedness, but not emptiness.
38 It now also strips any leading or trailing whitesapce from the
40 * Test::Harness and prove only quote those parms that actually need
41 to be quoted: Have some whitespace and aren't already quoted.
43 2.36 Fri Nov 14 09:24:44 CST 2003
45 * t/prove-includes.t properly ignores PROVE_SWITCHES that you may
48 2.35_02 Thu Nov 13 09:57:36 CST 2003
50 * prove's --blib now works just like the blib pragma.
52 2.35_01 Wed Nov 12 23:08:45 CST 2003
54 * Fixed taint-handling and path preservation under MacOS. Thanks to
55 Schwern for the patch and the tests.
57 * Preserves case of -t or -T in the shebang line of the test.
60 * Added -t to prove analogous to Perl's -t. Removed the --taint
63 * prove can take default options from the PROVE_SWITCHES variable.
65 * Added HARNESS_PERL to allow you to specify the Perl interpreter
68 * prove's --perl switch sets the HARNESS_PERL on the fly for you.
70 * Quotes the switches and filename in the subprogram. This helps
71 with filenames with spaces that are subject to shell mangling.
74 2.34 Sat Nov 8 22:09:15 CST 2003
76 * Allowed prove to run on Perl versions < 5.6.0.
79 * Command-line switches to prove may now be stacked.
80 * Added check for proper Pod::Usage version.
81 * "make clean" does a better job of cleaning up after itself.
84 2.32 Fri Nov 7 09:41:21 CST 2003
85 Test::Harness now includes a powerful development tool to help
86 programmers work with automated tests. The prove utility runs
87 test files against the harness, like a "make test", but with many
90 * prove is designed as a development tool
91 Perl users typically run the test harness through a makefile via
92 "make test". That's fine for module distributions, but it's
93 suboptimal for a test/code/debug development cycle.
96 prove lets your run against only the files you want to check.
97 Running "prove t/live/ t/master.t" checks every *.t in t/live, plus
100 * prove has an easy verbose mode
101 To get full test program output from "make test", you must set
102 "HARNESS_VERBOSE" in the environment. prove has a "-v" option.
104 * prove can run under taint mode
105 prove's "-T" runs your tests under "perl -T".
107 * prove can shuffle tests
108 You can use prove's "--shuffle" option to try to excite problems
109 that don't show up when tests are run in the same order every time.
111 * Not everything is a module
112 More and more users are using Perl's testing tools outside the
113 context of a module distribution, and may not even use a makefile at
116 Prove requires Pod::Usage, which is standard after Perl 5.004.
118 I'm very excited about prove, and hope that developers will begin
119 adopting it to their coding cycles. I welcome your comments at
122 There are also some minor bug fixes in Test::Harness itself, listed
123 below in the 2.31_* notes.
126 2.31_05 Thu Nov 6 14:56:22 CST 2003
128 - If a MacPerl script had a shebang with -T, the -T wouldn't get
130 - Removed the -T on three *.t files, which didn't need them, and
131 which were causing problems.
132 - Conditionally installs bin/prove, depending on whether Pod::Usage
133 is available, which prove needs.
134 - Removed old leftover code from Makefile.PL.
136 2.31_04 Mon Nov 3 23:36:06 CST 2003
137 Minor tweaks here and there, almost ready to release.
139 2.31_03 Mon Nov 3 08:50:36 CST 2003
141 - prove is almost feature-complete. Removed the handling of
142 --exclude for excluding certain tests. It may go back in the
144 - prove -d is now debug. Dry is prove -D.
146 2.31_02 Fri Oct 31 23:46:03 CST 2003
148 - Added many more switches to prove: -d for dry run, and -b for
152 - T:H:Straps now recognizes MSWin32 in $^0.
153 - RT#3811: Could do regex matching on garbage in _is_test().
155 - RT#3827: Strips backslashes from and normalizes @INC entries
156 for Win32. Fixed by Yves Orton.
159 - Added $self->{_is_macos} to the T:H:Strap object.
160 - t/test-harness.t sorts its test results, rather than relying on
165 - Added "prove" script to run a test or set of tests through the
166 harness. Thanks to Curtis Poe for the foundation.
169 - Fixed POD problem in Test::Harness::Assert
171 2.30 Thu Aug 14 20:04:00 CDT 2003
172 No functional changes in this version. It's only to make some doc
173 tweaks, and bump up the version number in T:H:Straps.
176 - Changed Schwern to Andy as the maintainer.
177 - Incorporated the TODO file into Harness.pm proper.
178 - Cleaned up formatting in Test::Harness::Straps.
180 2.29 Wed Jul 17 14:08:00 CDT 2003
183 2.28_91 Sun Jul 13 00:10:00 CDT 2003
185 - Added support for HARNESS_OK_SLOW. This will make a significant
186 speedup for slower connections.
187 - Folded in some changes from bleadperl that spiff up the
191 - Added some isa_ok() checks to the tests.
192 - All Test::Harness* modules are used by use_ok()
193 - Fixed the prototype for the canonfailed() function, not that
194 it matters since it's never called without parens.
196 2.28_90 Sat Jul 05 20:21:00 CDT 2003
198 - Now, when you run a test harnessed, the numbers don't fly by one
199 at a time, one update per second. This significantly speeds
200 up the run time for running thousands of tests. *COUGH*
201 Regexp::Common *COUGH*
203 2.28 Thu Apr 24 14:39:00 CDT 2003
204 - No functional changes.
206 2.27_05 Mon Apr 21 15:55:00 CDT 2003
207 - No functional changes.
208 - Fixed circular depency in the test suite. Thanks, Rob Brown.
210 2.27_04 Sat Apr 12 21:42:00 CDT 2003
211 - Added test for $Test::Harness::Switches patch below.
213 2.27_03 Thu Apr 03 10:47:00 CDT 2003
214 - Fixed straps not respecting $Test::Harness::Switches. Thanks
215 to Miyagawa for the patch.
216 - Added t/pod.t to test POD validity.
218 2.27_02 Mon Mar 24 13:17:00 CDT 2003
219 2.27_01 Sun Mar 23 19:46:00 CDT 2003
220 - Handed over to Andy Lester for further maintenance.
221 - Fixed when the path to perl contains spaces on Windows
222 * Stas Bekman noticed that tests with no output at all were
223 interpreted as passing
224 - MacPerl test tweak for busted exit codes (bleadperl 17345)
225 - Abigail and Nick Clark both hit the 100000 "huge test that will
226 suck up all your memory" limit with legit tests. Made the check
227 smarter to allow large, planned tests to work.
228 - Partial fix of stats display when a test fails only because there's
230 - Made wait.ph and WCOREDUMP anti-vommit protection more robust in
231 cases where wait.ph loads but WCOREDUMP() pukes when run.
233 - Ilya noticed the per test skip reason was accumlating between tests.
235 2.26 Wed Jun 19 16:58:02 EDT 2002
236 - Workaround for MacPerl's lack of a working putenv. It will never
237 see the PERL5LIB environment variable (perl@16942).
239 2.25 Sun Jun 16 03:00:33 EDT 2002
240 - $Strap is now a global to allow Test::Harness::Straps
242 - Little spelling nit in a diagnostic.
243 - Chris Richmond noted that the runtests() docs were wrong. It will
244 die, not return false, when any tests fail. This is silly, but
245 historically necessary for 'make test'. Docs corrected.
246 - MacPerl test fixes from Pudge. (mutation of bleadperl@16989)
247 - Undef warning introduced in 2.24 on skipped tests with no reasons
249 * Test::Harness now depends on File::Spec
251 2.24 Wed May 29 19:02:18 EDT 2002
252 * Nikola Knezevic found a bug when tests are completely skipped
253 but no reason is given it was considered a failure.
254 * Made Test::Harness::Straps->analyze_file & Test::Harness a bit
255 more graceful when the test doesn't exist.
257 2.23 Wed May 22 12:59:47 EDT 2002
258 - reason for all skip wasn't being displayed. Broken in 2.20.
259 - Changed the wait status tests to conform with POSIX standards.
260 - Quieted some SYSTEM$ABORT noise leaking out from dying test tests
263 2.22 Fri May 17 19:01:35 EDT 2002
264 - Fixed parsing of #!/usr/bin/perl-current to not see a -t.
266 - Fixed exit codes on MPE/iX
268 2.21 Mon May 6 00:43:22 EDT 2002
269 - removed a bunch of dead code left over after 2.20's gutting.
270 - The fix for the $^X "bug" added in 2.02 has been removed. It
271 caused more trouble than the old bug (I'd never seen a problem
273 - 2.20 broke $verbose
275 2.20 Sat May 4 22:31:20 EDT 2002
276 * An almost complete conversion of the Test::Harness test parsing
277 to use Test::Harness::Straps.
279 2.04 Tue Apr 30 00:54:49 EDT 2002
280 * Changing the output format of skips
281 - Taking into account VMS's special exit codes in the tests.
283 2.03 Thu Apr 25 01:01:34 EDT 2002
284 * $^X fix made safer.
285 - Noise from loading wait.ph to analyze core files supressed
286 - MJD found a situation where a test could run Test::Harness
287 out of memory. Protecting against that specific case.
288 - Made the 1..M docs a bit clearer.
289 - Fixed TODO tests so Test::Harness does not display a NOK for
291 - Test::Harness::Straps->analyze_file() docs were not clear as to
294 2.02 Thu Mar 14 18:06:04 EST 2002
295 * Ken Williams fixed the long standing $^X bug.
296 * Added HARNESS_VERBOSE
297 * Fixed a bug where Test::Harness::Straps was considering a test that
298 is ok but died as passing.
299 - Added the exit and wait codes of the test to the
300 analyze_file() results.
302 2.01 Thu Dec 27 18:54:36 EST 2001
303 * Added 'passing' to the results to tell you if the test passed
304 * Added Test::Harness::Straps example (examples/mini_harness.plx)
305 * Header-at-end tests were being interpreted as failing sometimes
306 - The 'skip_all' results from analyze* was not being set
307 - analyze_fh() and analyze_file() now work more efficiently, reading
308 line-by-line instead of slurping as before.
310 2.00 Sun Dec 23 19:13:57 EST 2001
311 - Fixed a warning on VMS.
312 - Removed a little unnecessary code from analyze_file()
313 - Made sure filehandles are getting closed
314 - analyze() now considers "not \nok" to be a failure (VMSism)
315 but Test::Harness still doesn't.
317 2.00_05 Mon Dec 17 22:08:02 EST 2001
318 * Wasn't filtering @INC properly when a test is run with -T, caused the
319 command line to be too long on VMS. VMS should be 100% now.
320 - Little bug in the skip 'various reasons' logic.
321 - Minor POD nit in 5.004_04
322 - Little speling mistak
324 2.00_04 Sun Dec 16 00:33:32 EST 2001
325 * Major Test::Harness::Straps doc bug.
327 2.00_03 Sat Dec 15 23:52:17 EST 2001
328 * First release candidate
329 * 'summary' is now 'details'
330 * Test #1 is now element 0 on the details array. It works out better
332 * analyze_file() is more portable, but no longer taint clean
333 * analyze_file() properly preserves @INC and handles -T switches
334 - minor mistake in the test header line parsing
336 1.26 Mon Nov 12 15:44:01 EST 2001
337 * An excuse to upload a new version to CPAN to get Test::Harness
340 2.00_00 Sat Sep 29 00:12:03 EDT 2001
341 * Partial gutting of the internals
342 * Added Test::Harness::Straps
344 1.25 Tue Aug 7 08:51:09 EDT 2001
345 * Fixed a bug with tests failing if they're all skipped
346 reported by Stas Bekman.
347 - Fixed a very minor warning in 5.004_04
348 - Fixed displaying filenames not from @ARGV
349 - Merging with bleadperl
350 - minor fixes to the filename in the report
351 - '[no reason given]' skip reason
353 1.24 Tue Aug 7 08:51:09 EDT 2001
354 - Added internal information about number of todo tests
356 1.23 Tue Jul 31 15:06:47 EDT 2001
357 - Merged in Ilya's "various reasons" patch
358 * Fixed "not ok 23 - some name # TODO" style tests
360 1.22 Mon Jun 25 02:00:02 EDT 2001
361 * Fixed bug with failing tests using header at end.
362 - Documented how Test::Harness deals with garbage input
363 - Turned on test counter mismatch warning
365 1.21 Wed May 23 19:22:53 BST 2001
366 * No longer considered unstable. Merging back with the perl core.
367 - Fixed minor nit about the report summary
368 - Added docs on the meaning of the failure report
369 - Minor POD nits fixed mirroring perl change 9176
370 - TODO and SEE ALSO expanded
372 1.20 Wed Mar 14 23:09:20 GMT 2001 by Michael G Schwern *UNSTABLE*
373 * Fixed and tested with 5.004!
376 - Now uneffected by -l, $\ or $,
378 1.19 Sat Mar 10 00:43:29 GMT 2001 by Michael G Schwern *UNSTABLE*
379 - More internal reworking
380 * Removed use of experimental /(?>...)/ feature for backwards compat
381 * Removed use of open(my $fh, $file) for backwards compatibility
382 * Removed use of Tie::StdHandle in tests for backwards compat
383 * Added dire warning that this is unstable.
384 - Added some tests from the old CPAN release
386 1.18 Mon Mar 5 17:35:11 GMT 2001 by Michael G Schwern
387 * Under new management!
388 * Test::Harness is now being concurrently shipped on CPAN as well
390 - Switched "our" for "use vars" and moved the minimum version back
391 to 5.004. This may be optimistic.
394 *** Missing version history to be extracted from Perl changes ***
397 1.07 Fri Feb 23 1996 by Andreas Koenig
398 - Gisle sent me a documentation patch that showed me, that the
399 unless(/^#/) is unnessessary. Applied the patch and deleted the block
400 checking for "comment" lines. -- All lines are comment lines that do
401 not match /^1\.\.([0-9]+)/ or /^(not\s+)?ok\b/.
402 - Ilyaz request to print "ok (empty test case)" whenever we say 1..0
404 - Harness now doesn't abort anymore if we received confused test output,
407 1.05 Wed Jan 31 1996 by Andreas Koenig
408 - More updates on docu and introduced the liberality that the script
409 output may omit the test numbers.
411 1.03 Mon January 28 1996 by Andreas Koenig
412 - Added the statistics for subtests. Updated the documentation.
414 1.02 by Andreas Koenig
415 - This version reports a list of the tests that failed accompanied by
416 some trivial statistics. The older (unnumbered) version stopped
417 processing after the first failed test.
418 - Additionally it reports the exit status if there is one.