1 Revision history for Perl extension Test::Harness
3 2.42 Wed Apr 28 22:13:11 CDT 2004
5 * prove -v now sets TEST_VERBOSE in case your tests rely on them.
6 * prove globs the command line, since Win32's shell doesn't.
9 * Cross-platform test fixes on t/prove-globbing.t
12 2.40 Tue Dec 30 20:38:59 CST 2003
14 * Test::Harness::Straps should now properly quote on VMS.
17 * prove now takes a -l option to add lib/ to @INC. Now when you're
18 building a module, you don't have to do a make before you run
19 the prove. Thanks to David Wheeler for the idea.
22 * Internal functions corestatus() and canonfailed() prepended with
23 underscores, to indicate such.
25 * Gratuitous text-only changes in Test::Harness::Iterator.
27 * All tests now do their use_ok() in a BEGIN block. Some of the
28 use_ok() calls were too much of a hassle to put into a BEGIN block,
29 so I changed them to regular use calls.
32 2.38 Mon Nov 24 22:36:18 CST 2003
33 Released. See changes below.
35 2.37_03 Tue Nov 18 23:51:38 CST 2003
37 * prove -V now shows the Perl version being used.
38 * Now there's a HARNESS_DEBUG flag that shows diagnostics as the
39 harness runs the tests. This is different from HARNESS_VERBOSE,
40 which shows test output, but not information about the harness
42 * Added _command_line() to the Strap API.
45 * Bad interaction with Module::Build: The strap was only checking
46 $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} for definedness, but not emptiness.
47 It now also strips any leading or trailing whitesapce from the
49 * Test::Harness and prove only quote those parms that actually need
50 to be quoted: Have some whitespace and aren't already quoted.
52 2.36 Fri Nov 14 09:24:44 CST 2003
54 * t/prove-includes.t properly ignores PROVE_SWITCHES that you may
57 2.35_02 Thu Nov 13 09:57:36 CST 2003
59 * prove's --blib now works just like the blib pragma.
61 2.35_01 Wed Nov 12 23:08:45 CST 2003
63 * Fixed taint-handling and path preservation under MacOS. Thanks to
64 Schwern for the patch and the tests.
66 * Preserves case of -t or -T in the shebang line of the test.
69 * Added -t to prove analogous to Perl's -t. Removed the --taint
72 * prove can take default options from the PROVE_SWITCHES variable.
74 * Added HARNESS_PERL to allow you to specify the Perl interpreter
77 * prove's --perl switch sets the HARNESS_PERL on the fly for you.
79 * Quotes the switches and filename in the subprogram. This helps
80 with filenames with spaces that are subject to shell mangling.
83 2.34 Sat Nov 8 22:09:15 CST 2003
85 * Allowed prove to run on Perl versions < 5.6.0.
88 * Command-line switches to prove may now be stacked.
89 * Added check for proper Pod::Usage version.
90 * "make clean" does a better job of cleaning up after itself.
93 2.32 Fri Nov 7 09:41:21 CST 2003
94 Test::Harness now includes a powerful development tool to help
95 programmers work with automated tests. The prove utility runs
96 test files against the harness, like a "make test", but with many
99 * prove is designed as a development tool
100 Perl users typically run the test harness through a makefile via
101 "make test". That's fine for module distributions, but it's
102 suboptimal for a test/code/debug development cycle.
105 prove lets your run against only the files you want to check.
106 Running "prove t/live/ t/master.t" checks every *.t in t/live, plus
109 * prove has an easy verbose mode
110 To get full test program output from "make test", you must set
111 "HARNESS_VERBOSE" in the environment. prove has a "-v" option.
113 * prove can run under taint mode
114 prove's "-T" runs your tests under "perl -T".
116 * prove can shuffle tests
117 You can use prove's "--shuffle" option to try to excite problems
118 that don't show up when tests are run in the same order every time.
120 * Not everything is a module
121 More and more users are using Perl's testing tools outside the
122 context of a module distribution, and may not even use a makefile at
125 Prove requires Pod::Usage, which is standard after Perl 5.004.
127 I'm very excited about prove, and hope that developers will begin
128 adopting it to their coding cycles. I welcome your comments at
131 There are also some minor bug fixes in Test::Harness itself, listed
132 below in the 2.31_* notes.
135 2.31_05 Thu Nov 6 14:56:22 CST 2003
137 - If a MacPerl script had a shebang with -T, the -T wouldn't get
139 - Removed the -T on three *.t files, which didn't need them, and
140 which were causing problems.
141 - Conditionally installs bin/prove, depending on whether Pod::Usage
142 is available, which prove needs.
143 - Removed old leftover code from Makefile.PL.
145 2.31_04 Mon Nov 3 23:36:06 CST 2003
146 Minor tweaks here and there, almost ready to release.
148 2.31_03 Mon Nov 3 08:50:36 CST 2003
150 - prove is almost feature-complete. Removed the handling of
151 --exclude for excluding certain tests. It may go back in the
153 - prove -d is now debug. Dry is prove -D.
155 2.31_02 Fri Oct 31 23:46:03 CST 2003
157 - Added many more switches to prove: -d for dry run, and -b for
161 - T:H:Straps now recognizes MSWin32 in $^0.
162 - RT#3811: Could do regex matching on garbage in _is_test().
164 - RT#3827: Strips backslashes from and normalizes @INC entries
165 for Win32. Fixed by Yves Orton.
168 - Added $self->{_is_macos} to the T:H:Strap object.
169 - t/test-harness.t sorts its test results, rather than relying on
174 - Added "prove" script to run a test or set of tests through the
175 harness. Thanks to Curtis Poe for the foundation.
178 - Fixed POD problem in Test::Harness::Assert
180 2.30 Thu Aug 14 20:04:00 CDT 2003
181 No functional changes in this version. It's only to make some doc
182 tweaks, and bump up the version number in T:H:Straps.
185 - Changed Schwern to Andy as the maintainer.
186 - Incorporated the TODO file into Harness.pm proper.
187 - Cleaned up formatting in Test::Harness::Straps.
189 2.29 Wed Jul 17 14:08:00 CDT 2003
192 2.28_91 Sun Jul 13 00:10:00 CDT 2003
194 - Added support for HARNESS_OK_SLOW. This will make a significant
195 speedup for slower connections.
196 - Folded in some changes from bleadperl that spiff up the
200 - Added some isa_ok() checks to the tests.
201 - All Test::Harness* modules are used by use_ok()
202 - Fixed the prototype for the canonfailed() function, not that
203 it matters since it's never called without parens.
205 2.28_90 Sat Jul 05 20:21:00 CDT 2003
207 - Now, when you run a test harnessed, the numbers don't fly by one
208 at a time, one update per second. This significantly speeds
209 up the run time for running thousands of tests. *COUGH*
210 Regexp::Common *COUGH*
212 2.28 Thu Apr 24 14:39:00 CDT 2003
213 - No functional changes.
215 2.27_05 Mon Apr 21 15:55:00 CDT 2003
216 - No functional changes.
217 - Fixed circular depency in the test suite. Thanks, Rob Brown.
219 2.27_04 Sat Apr 12 21:42:00 CDT 2003
220 - Added test for $Test::Harness::Switches patch below.
222 2.27_03 Thu Apr 03 10:47:00 CDT 2003
223 - Fixed straps not respecting $Test::Harness::Switches. Thanks
224 to Miyagawa for the patch.
225 - Added t/pod.t to test POD validity.
227 2.27_02 Mon Mar 24 13:17:00 CDT 2003
228 2.27_01 Sun Mar 23 19:46:00 CDT 2003
229 - Handed over to Andy Lester for further maintenance.
230 - Fixed when the path to perl contains spaces on Windows
231 * Stas Bekman noticed that tests with no output at all were
232 interpreted as passing
233 - MacPerl test tweak for busted exit codes (bleadperl 17345)
234 - Abigail and Nick Clark both hit the 100000 "huge test that will
235 suck up all your memory" limit with legit tests. Made the check
236 smarter to allow large, planned tests to work.
237 - Partial fix of stats display when a test fails only because there's
239 - Made wait.ph and WCOREDUMP anti-vommit protection more robust in
240 cases where wait.ph loads but WCOREDUMP() pukes when run.
242 - Ilya noticed the per test skip reason was accumlating between tests.
244 2.26 Wed Jun 19 16:58:02 EDT 2002
245 - Workaround for MacPerl's lack of a working putenv. It will never
246 see the PERL5LIB environment variable (perl@16942).
248 2.25 Sun Jun 16 03:00:33 EDT 2002
249 - $Strap is now a global to allow Test::Harness::Straps
251 - Little spelling nit in a diagnostic.
252 - Chris Richmond noted that the runtests() docs were wrong. It will
253 die, not return false, when any tests fail. This is silly, but
254 historically necessary for 'make test'. Docs corrected.
255 - MacPerl test fixes from Pudge. (mutation of bleadperl@16989)
256 - Undef warning introduced in 2.24 on skipped tests with no reasons
258 * Test::Harness now depends on File::Spec
260 2.24 Wed May 29 19:02:18 EDT 2002
261 * Nikola Knezevic found a bug when tests are completely skipped
262 but no reason is given it was considered a failure.
263 * Made Test::Harness::Straps->analyze_file & Test::Harness a bit
264 more graceful when the test doesn't exist.
266 2.23 Wed May 22 12:59:47 EDT 2002
267 - reason for all skip wasn't being displayed. Broken in 2.20.
268 - Changed the wait status tests to conform with POSIX standards.
269 - Quieted some SYSTEM$ABORT noise leaking out from dying test tests
272 2.22 Fri May 17 19:01:35 EDT 2002
273 - Fixed parsing of #!/usr/bin/perl-current to not see a -t.
275 - Fixed exit codes on MPE/iX
277 2.21 Mon May 6 00:43:22 EDT 2002
278 - removed a bunch of dead code left over after 2.20's gutting.
279 - The fix for the $^X "bug" added in 2.02 has been removed. It
280 caused more trouble than the old bug (I'd never seen a problem
282 - 2.20 broke $verbose
284 2.20 Sat May 4 22:31:20 EDT 2002
285 * An almost complete conversion of the Test::Harness test parsing
286 to use Test::Harness::Straps.
288 2.04 Tue Apr 30 00:54:49 EDT 2002
289 * Changing the output format of skips
290 - Taking into account VMS's special exit codes in the tests.
292 2.03 Thu Apr 25 01:01:34 EDT 2002
293 * $^X fix made safer.
294 - Noise from loading wait.ph to analyze core files supressed
295 - MJD found a situation where a test could run Test::Harness
296 out of memory. Protecting against that specific case.
297 - Made the 1..M docs a bit clearer.
298 - Fixed TODO tests so Test::Harness does not display a NOK for
300 - Test::Harness::Straps->analyze_file() docs were not clear as to
303 2.02 Thu Mar 14 18:06:04 EST 2002
304 * Ken Williams fixed the long standing $^X bug.
305 * Added HARNESS_VERBOSE
306 * Fixed a bug where Test::Harness::Straps was considering a test that
307 is ok but died as passing.
308 - Added the exit and wait codes of the test to the
309 analyze_file() results.
311 2.01 Thu Dec 27 18:54:36 EST 2001
312 * Added 'passing' to the results to tell you if the test passed
313 * Added Test::Harness::Straps example (examples/mini_harness.plx)
314 * Header-at-end tests were being interpreted as failing sometimes
315 - The 'skip_all' results from analyze* was not being set
316 - analyze_fh() and analyze_file() now work more efficiently, reading
317 line-by-line instead of slurping as before.
319 2.00 Sun Dec 23 19:13:57 EST 2001
320 - Fixed a warning on VMS.
321 - Removed a little unnecessary code from analyze_file()
322 - Made sure filehandles are getting closed
323 - analyze() now considers "not \nok" to be a failure (VMSism)
324 but Test::Harness still doesn't.
326 2.00_05 Mon Dec 17 22:08:02 EST 2001
327 * Wasn't filtering @INC properly when a test is run with -T, caused the
328 command line to be too long on VMS. VMS should be 100% now.
329 - Little bug in the skip 'various reasons' logic.
330 - Minor POD nit in 5.004_04
331 - Little speling mistak
333 2.00_04 Sun Dec 16 00:33:32 EST 2001
334 * Major Test::Harness::Straps doc bug.
336 2.00_03 Sat Dec 15 23:52:17 EST 2001
337 * First release candidate
338 * 'summary' is now 'details'
339 * Test #1 is now element 0 on the details array. It works out better
341 * analyze_file() is more portable, but no longer taint clean
342 * analyze_file() properly preserves @INC and handles -T switches
343 - minor mistake in the test header line parsing
345 1.26 Mon Nov 12 15:44:01 EST 2001
346 * An excuse to upload a new version to CPAN to get Test::Harness
349 2.00_00 Sat Sep 29 00:12:03 EDT 2001
350 * Partial gutting of the internals
351 * Added Test::Harness::Straps
353 1.25 Tue Aug 7 08:51:09 EDT 2001
354 * Fixed a bug with tests failing if they're all skipped
355 reported by Stas Bekman.
356 - Fixed a very minor warning in 5.004_04
357 - Fixed displaying filenames not from @ARGV
358 - Merging with bleadperl
359 - minor fixes to the filename in the report
360 - '[no reason given]' skip reason
362 1.24 Tue Aug 7 08:51:09 EDT 2001
363 - Added internal information about number of todo tests
365 1.23 Tue Jul 31 15:06:47 EDT 2001
366 - Merged in Ilya's "various reasons" patch
367 * Fixed "not ok 23 - some name # TODO" style tests
369 1.22 Mon Jun 25 02:00:02 EDT 2001
370 * Fixed bug with failing tests using header at end.
371 - Documented how Test::Harness deals with garbage input
372 - Turned on test counter mismatch warning
374 1.21 Wed May 23 19:22:53 BST 2001
375 * No longer considered unstable. Merging back with the perl core.
376 - Fixed minor nit about the report summary
377 - Added docs on the meaning of the failure report
378 - Minor POD nits fixed mirroring perl change 9176
379 - TODO and SEE ALSO expanded
381 1.20 Wed Mar 14 23:09:20 GMT 2001 by Michael G Schwern *UNSTABLE*
382 * Fixed and tested with 5.004!
385 - Now uneffected by -l, $\ or $,
387 1.19 Sat Mar 10 00:43:29 GMT 2001 by Michael G Schwern *UNSTABLE*
388 - More internal reworking
389 * Removed use of experimental /(?>...)/ feature for backwards compat
390 * Removed use of open(my $fh, $file) for backwards compatibility
391 * Removed use of Tie::StdHandle in tests for backwards compat
392 * Added dire warning that this is unstable.
393 - Added some tests from the old CPAN release
395 1.18 Mon Mar 5 17:35:11 GMT 2001 by Michael G Schwern
396 * Under new management!
397 * Test::Harness is now being concurrently shipped on CPAN as well
399 - Switched "our" for "use vars" and moved the minimum version back
400 to 5.004. This may be optimistic.
403 *** Missing version history to be extracted from Perl changes ***
406 1.07 Fri Feb 23 1996 by Andreas Koenig
407 - Gisle sent me a documentation patch that showed me, that the
408 unless(/^#/) is unnessessary. Applied the patch and deleted the block
409 checking for "comment" lines. -- All lines are comment lines that do
410 not match /^1\.\.([0-9]+)/ or /^(not\s+)?ok\b/.
411 - Ilyaz request to print "ok (empty test case)" whenever we say 1..0
413 - Harness now doesn't abort anymore if we received confused test output,
416 1.05 Wed Jan 31 1996 by Andreas Koenig
417 - More updates on docu and introduced the liberality that the script
418 output may omit the test numbers.
420 1.03 Mon January 28 1996 by Andreas Koenig
421 - Added the statistics for subtests. Updated the documentation.
423 1.02 by Andreas Koenig
424 - This version reports a list of the tests that failed accompanied by
425 some trivial statistics. The older (unnumbered) version stopped
426 processing after the first failed test.
427 - Additionally it reports the exit status if there is one.