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Re: Re: Yet another meditation on testing

by BUU (Prior)
on Feb 14, 2004 at 21:14 UTC ( [id://329033]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Yet another meditation on testing
in thread Yet another meditation on testing

That was indeed the module I was thinking of when I wrote this meditation, but you didn't answer my questions about the suitability of using such a module. It seemed to me that testing the datastructure sent to the template would be kind of like testing the code that makes up the subroutine. But on second thought, perhaps those tests combined with other tests.

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Re: Re: Re: Yet another meditation on testing
by hardburn (Abbot) on Feb 15, 2004 at 14:44 UTC

    IMHO, the general rules of good coding practices should be relaxed when applied to test scripts and debugging. If anything, attempting to parse your way through the raw HTML makes your tests more dependant on implementation details compared to reading the datastructure alone. The things your tests will check are going to be some result that's inside that datastructure anyway, and going through the HTML will just create extra work. You don't necessarily have to check the entire datastructure, but just the pieces you're interested in.

    What HTML::Template::Dumper will do is tie you to using HTML::Template. For the orginization I work for, this isn't much of a problem, because HTML::Template best fits the way we operate (e.g., strict seperation of code and data). Though this isn't an itch I personally have the need to scratch, I would like to see other modules for different template systems and work with the authors to integrate them where we can.

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