NAME¶
App::Cmd::Tester::CaptureExternal - Extends App::Cmd::Tester to capture from
external subprograms
VERSION¶
version 0.324
SYNOPSIS¶
use Test::More tests => 4;
use App::Cmd::Tester::CaptureExternal;
use YourApp;
my $result = test_app(YourApp => [ qw(command --opt value) ]);
like($result->stdout, qr/expected output/, 'printed what we expected');
is($result->stderr, '', 'nothing sent to sderr');
ok($result->output, "STDOUT concatenated with STDERR");
DESCRIPTION¶
App::Cmd::Tester provides a useful scaffold for testing applications, but it is
unable to capture output generated from any external subprograms that are
invoked from the application.
This subclass uses an alternate mechanism for capturing output (Capture::Tiny)
that does capture from external programs, with one major limitation.
It is not possible to capture externally from both STDOUT and STDERR while also
having appropriately interleaved combined output. Therefore, the
"output" from this subclass simply concatenates the two.
You can still use "output" for testing if there is any output at all
or for testing if something appeared in either output stream, but you can't
rely on the ordering being correct between lines to STDOUT and lines to
STDERR.
AUTHOR¶
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Ricardo Signes.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.