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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-03-30 14:07:16 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-03-30 14:07:16 -0700 |
commit | de8a8ed155b8e87a9eb63a09fc2e085d5dd272a8 (patch) | |
tree | 71e025d6cfbf58daf351ec969ac3e897f038e26d /t | |
parent | Merge branch 'rs/freebsd-getcwd-workaround' (diff) | |
parent | t/README: clarify the test_have_prereq documentation (diff) | |
download | tgif-de8a8ed155b8e87a9eb63a09fc2e085d5dd272a8.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'ab/test-readme-updates'
Doc updates.
* ab/test-readme-updates:
t/README: clarify the test_have_prereq documentation
t/README: change "Inside <X> part" to "Inside the <X> part"
t/README: link to metacpan.org, not search.cpan.org
Diffstat (limited to 't')
-rw-r--r-- | t/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -471,13 +471,13 @@ Don't: their output. You can glean some further possible issues from the TAP grammar - (see http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP_Grammar) + (see https://metacpan.org/pod/TAP::Parser::Grammar#TAP-GRAMMAR) but the best indication is to just run the tests with prove(1), it'll complain if anything is amiss. Keep in mind: - - Inside <script> part, the standard output and standard error + - Inside the <script> part, the standard output and standard error streams are discarded, and the test harness only reports "ok" or "not ok" to the end user running the tests. Under --verbose, they are shown to help debugging the tests. @@ -611,9 +611,11 @@ library for your script to use. - test_have_prereq <prereq> - Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with - test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip - all the tests if we don't have some essential prerequisite: + Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with test_set_prereq. + The most common way to use this explicitly (as opposed to the + implicit use when an argument is passed to test_expect_*) is to skip + all the tests at the start of the test script if we don't have some + essential prerequisite: if ! test_have_prereq PERL then |