Test::Aggregate 0.364

Test::Aggregate can aggregate *.t tests to make them run faster.

SYNOPSIS

use Test::Aggregate;

my $tests = Test::Aggregate->new( {
dirs => $aggregate_test_dir,
} );
$tests->run;

WARNING: this is ALPHA code. The interface is not guaranteed to be stable.
A common problem with many test suites is that they can take a long time to run. The longer they run, the less likely you are to run the tests. This module borrows a trick from Apache::Registry to load up your tests at once, create a separate package for each test and wraps each package in a method named run_the_tests. This allows us to load perl only once and related modules only once. If you have modules which are expensive to load, this can dramatically speed up a test suite.

USAGE

Create a separate directory for your tests. This should not be a subdirectory of your regular test directory. Write a small driver program and put it in your regular test directory (t/ is the standard):

use Test::Aggregate;
my $other_test_dir = 'aggregate_tests';
my $tests = Test::Aggregate->new( {
dirs => $other_test_dir
});
$tests->run;

Take your simplest tests and move them, one by one, into the new test directory and keep running the Test::Aggregate program. You'll find some tests will not run in a shared environment like this. You can either fix the tests or simply leave them in your regular test directory. See how this distribution's tests are organized for an example.

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· Perl