Question

Suppose you’re running some unit tests and you want to see if the method ( or script or function or whatever) you’re testing fails as it should. How do you setup such a test? I’m hoping for something like this:

ok( $obj->method($my, $bad, $params) == DEATH, 'method dies as expected');

although I don’t see how it would work since method dies when passed bad parameters and the test script stops.

Is there another way?

Answer 1

Have you tried Test::Exception? dies_ok should do what you want. Eg:

# Check that something died - we do not care why
dies_ok { $foo->method } 'expecting to die';