Question

I have been doing some OO Perl programming and I was wondering: which is the best way to perform unit tests?

So far I have been using the Test::Simple module to perform tests, but it feels insufficient for what I want.

Can you point me to some nice modules for that?

Answer 1

I’d add my vote to picking up Test::More before going any further in Perl testing. The Perl testing community is fairly well united around the Test Anything Protocol, and you’ll want to play around with Test::More to understand how it works and how tools like prove and Test::Harness::Archive can help automate and distribute testing.

If you want to just ‘jump right in’, I think Test::Class provides xTest facilities with a TAP backend. I haven’t used it at all (I’m a Test::More person myself), but it’s very highly rated.