prove -- A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness

prove [options] [files/directories]

Options:

    -b, --blib      Adds blib/lib to the path for your tests, a la "use blib".
    -d, --debug     Includes extra debugging information.
    -D, --dry       Dry run: Show the tests to run, but don't run them.
        --ext=x     Extensions (defaults to .t)
    -h, --help      Display this help
    -H, --man       Longer manpage for prove
    -I              Add libraries to @INC, as Perl's -I
    -l, --lib       Add lib to the path for your tests.
    -r, --recurse   Recursively descend into directories.
    -s, --shuffle   Run the tests in a random order.
    -T              Enable tainting checks
    -t              Enable tainting warnings
    -v, --verbose   Display standard output of test scripts while running them.
    -V, --version   Display version info

Single-character options may be stacked. Default options may be set by specifying the PROVE_SWITCHES environment variable.

prove is a command-line interface to the test-running functionality of CWTest::Harness. With no arguments, it will run all tests in the current directory.

Shell metacharacters may be used with command lines options and will be exanded via CWglob. prove has a number of advantages over CWmake test when doing development.

* prove is designed as a development tool

Perl users typically run the test harness through a makefile via CWmake test. That's fine for module distributions, but it's suboptimal for a test/code/debug development cycle.

* prove is granular

prove lets your run against only the files you want to check. Running CWprove t/live/ t/master.t checks every *.t in t/live, plus t/master.t.

* prove has an easy verbose mode

prove has a CW-v option to see the raw output from the tests. To do this with CWmake test, you must set CWHARNESS_VERBOSE=1 in the environment.

* prove can run under taint mode

prove's CW-T runs your tests under CWperl -T, and CW-t runs them under CWperl -t.

* prove can shuffle tests

You can use prove's CW--shuffle option to try to excite problems that don't show up when tests are run in the same order every time.

* prove doesn't rely on a make tool

Not everyone wants to write a makefile, or use ExtUtils::MakeMaker to do so. prove has no external dependencies.

* Not everything is a module

More and more users are using Perl's testing tools outside the context of a module distribution, and may not even use a makefile at all.

Adds blib/lib to the path for your tests, a la use blib.

Include debug information about how prove is being run. This option doesn't show the output from the test scripts. That's handled by -v,--verbose.

Dry run: Show the tests to run, but don't run them.

Specify extensions of the test files to run. By default, these are .t, but you may have other non-.t test files, most likely .sh shell scripts. The --ext is repeatable.

Add libraries to CW@INC, as Perl's -I.

Add CWlib to CW@INC. Equivalent to CW-Ilib.

Descends into subdirectories of any directories specified, looking for tests.

Sometimes tests are accidentally dependent on tests that have been run before. This switch will shuffle the tests to be run prior to running them, thus ensuring that hidden dependencies in the test order are likely to be revealed. The author hopes the run the algorithm on the preceding sentence to see if he can produce something slightly less awkward.

Runs test programs under perl's -t taint warning mode.

Runs test programs under perl's -T taint mode.

Display standard output of test scripts while running them. Also sets TEST_VERBOSE in case your tests rely on them.

Display version info.

Please use the CPAN bug ticketing system at <http://rt.cpan.org/>. You can also mail bugs, fixes and enhancements to CW<bug-test-harness@rt.cpan.org>.

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Shuffled tests must be recreatable

Andy Lester CW<andy@petdance.com>

Copyright 2003 by Andy Lester CW<andy@petdance.com>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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