[Catalyst] writing a test suite for my app

[Matt S Trout]

Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> OK, I suck at writing tests. I admit it. I have no clue as to how to do 
> it "the perl way", whatever that is, apart from running "make test" when 
> installing a module. I have some module tests for one of my libraries 
> using Test::Simple, and a hand written script to glue them all together. 
> I've just been looking at Test::Inline and it looks cool, but I can't 
> quite work out if it will fit for this catalyst app.
> 
> But I need to already start writing tests for my one controller before 
> shit starts getting out of hand ...
> 
> So how do I start? What's the first step? (I need to be able to 
> manipulate stuff in the session as well.)

(1) anything you create using myapp_create.pl will get a test stub 
created for you :)

(2) look at Catalyst::Test and Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst

(3) Test::More and Test::MockObject are your friend for unit testing

Go have a play with that lot and shout if you have any more questions :)

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