Test::STDmaker::STD is a Perl module that generates a STD POD from a test description short hand.
The Test::STDmaker::STD package is an internal driver package to the Test::STDmaker package that supports the Test::STDmaker::tmake() method. Any changes to the internal drive interface and this package will not even consider backward compatibility. Thus, this POD serves as a Software Design Folder documentation the current internal design of the Test::STDmaker and its driver packages.
The Test::STDmaker::STD package inherits the methods of the Test::STDmaker package. The Test::STDmaker build generate and methods directs the Test::STDmaker::STD to perform its work by calling its methods.
The Test::STDmaker::STD package methods use the Tie::Form methods to encode a STD POD and STD form database from the internal database checked by the Test::STDmaker::STD package methods. The Test::STDmaker package takes this data from the Test::STDmaker::STD package methods and generates a STD program module with a fresh POD and a checked __DATA__ form database with correctly counted ok fields.
The Test::STDmaker::STD package useful product is tables that trace requirements to tests and test headers that may be used to link (cite) tests in the tracebility matrices and other PODs.
During the course of the processing the Test::STDmaker::STD package maintains the following in the $self object data hash:
$demo_only
flags that the test description is for demo only
$fields
cumulative fields for the __DATA__ form section
@requirements
list of requirements for a test
$test
short hand test descriptions for a test
$Test_Descriptions
cumulative test descriptions POD
%trace_req
cumulative requirements to test hash
%trace_test
cumulative test to requirements hash
The Test::STDmaker::STD package processes following options that are passed as part of the $self hash from Test::STDmaker methods:
fspec_out
The file specification for the files in the __DATA__ form database.
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