• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
• LEGACY TEST
• BOILERPLATE
• SIMPLE ASSERTIONS
• TODO
• DEEP COMPARISONS
• COMPARING REFERENCES
• TOOLS THAT ARE GONE
• TOOLS THAT HAVE CHANGED
• FINAL VERSION
• SEE ALSO
• SOURCE
• MAINTAINERS
• AUTHORS
• COPYRIGHT

NAME

Test2::Manual::Testing::Migrating - How to migrate existing tests from Test::More to Test2.

DESCRIPTION

This tutorial covers the conversion of an existing test. This tutorial assumes you have a test written using the Test::More manpage.

LEGACY TEST

This tutorial will be converting this example test one section at a time:

t/example.t:

    #####################
    # Boilerplate

    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use Test::More tests => 14;

    use_ok 'Scalar::Util';
    require_ok 'Exporter';

    #####################
    # Simple assertions (no changes)

    ok(1, "pass");

    is("apple", "apple", "Simple string compare");

    like("foo bar baz", qr/bar/, "Regex match");

    #####################
    # Todo

    {
        local $TODO = "These are todo";

        ok(0, "oops");
    }

    #####################
    # Deep comparisons

    is_deeply([1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3], "Deep comparison");

    #####################
    # Comparing references

    my $ref = [1];
    is($ref, $ref, "Check that we have the same ref both times");

    #####################
    # Things that are gone

    ok(eq_array([1], [1]), "array comparison");
    ok(eq_hash({a => 1}, {a => 1}), "hash comparison");
    ok(eq_set([1, 3, 2], [1, 2, 3]), "set comparison");

    note explain([1, 2, 3]);

    {
        package THING;
        sub new { bless({}, shift) }
    }

    my $thing = new_ok('THING');

    #####################
    # Tools that changed

    isa_ok($thing, 'THING', '$thing');

    can_ok(__PACKAGE__, qw/ok is/);

BOILERPLATE

BEFORE:

    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use Test::More tests => 14;

    use_ok 'Scalar::Util';
    require_ok 'Exporter';

AFTER:

    use Test2::V0;
    plan(11);

    use Scalar::Util;
    require Exporter;

Replace Test::More with Test2::V0

the Test2::V0 manpage is the recommended bundle. In a full migration you will want to replace the Test::More manpage with the the Test2::V0 manpage bundle.

Note: You should always double check the latest Test2 to see if there is a new recommended bundle. When writing a new test you should always use the newest Test::V# module. Higher numbers are newer version.

Stop using use_ok()

use_ok() has been removed. a use MODULE statement will throw an exception on failure anyway preventing the test from passing.

If you REALLY want/need to assert that the file loaded you can use the ok module:

    use ok 'Scalar::Util';

The main difference here is that there is a space instead of an underscore.

Stop using require_ok()

require_ok has been removed just like use_ok. There is no ok module equivalent here. Just use require.

Remove strict/warnings (optional)

The the Test2::V0 manpage bundle turns strict and warnings on for you.

Change where the plan is set

Test2 does not allow you to set the plan at import. In the old code you would pass tests => 11 as an import argument. In Test2 you either need to use the plan() function to set the plan, or use done_testing() at the end of the test.

If your test already uses done_testing() you can keep that and no plan changes are necessary.

Note: We are also changing the plan from 14 to 11, that is because we dropped use_ok, require_ok, and we will be dropping one more later on. This is why done_testing() is recommended over a set plan.

SIMPLE ASSERTIONS

The vast majority of assertions will not need any changes:

    #####################
    # Simple assertions (no changes)

    ok(1, "pass");

    is("apple", "apple", "Simple string compare");

    like("foo bar baz", qr/bar/, "Regex match");

TODO

    {
        local $TODO = "These are todo";

        ok(0, "oops");
    }

The $TODO package variable is gone. You now have a todo() function.

There are 2 ways this can be used:

todo $reason => sub { ... }

    todo "These are todo" => sub {
        ok(0, "oops");
    };

This is the cleanest way to do a todo. This will make all assertions inside the codeblock into TODO assertions.

{ my $TODO = todo $reason; ... }

    {
        my $TODO = todo "These are todo";

        ok(0, "oops");
    }

This is a system that emulates the old way. Instead of modifying a global $TODO variable you create a todo object with the todo() function and assign it to a lexical variable. Once the todo object falls out of scope the TODO ends.

DEEP COMPARISONS

    is_deeply([1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3], "Deep comparison");

Deep comparisons are easy, simply replace is_deeply() with is().

    is([1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3], "Deep comparison");

COMPARING REFERENCES

    my $ref = [1];
    is($ref, $ref, "Check that we have the same ref both times");

The is() function provided by the Test::More manpage forces both arguments into strings, which makes this a comparison of the reference addresses. Test2's is() function is a deep comparison, so this will still pass, but fails to actually test what we want (that both references are the same exact ref, not just identical structures.)

We now have the ref_is() function that does what we really want, it ensures both references are the same reference. This function does the job better than the original, which could be thrown off by string overloading.

    my $ref = [1];
    ref_is($ref, $ref, "Check that we have the same ref both times");

TOOLS THAT ARE GONE

    ok(eq_array([1], [1]), "array comparison");
    ok(eq_hash({a => 1}, {a => 1}), "hash comparison");
    ok(eq_set([1, 3, 2], [1, 2, 3]), "set comparison");

    note explain([1, 2, 3]);

    {
        package THING;
        sub new { bless({}, shift) }
    }

    my $thing = new_ok('THING');

eq_array, eq_hash and eq_set have been considered deprecated for a very long time, Test2 does not provide them at all. Instead you can just use is():

    is([1], [1], "array comparison");
    is({a => 1}, {a => 1}, "hash comparison");

eq_set is a tad more complicated, see the Test2::Tools::Compare manpage for an explanation:

    is([1, 3, 2], bag { item 1; item 2; item 3; end }, "set comparison");

explain() has a rocky history. There have been arguments about how it should work. Test2 decided to simply not include explain() to avoid the arguments. You can instead directly use Data::Dumper:

    use Data::Dumper;
    note Dumper([1, 2, 3]);

new_ok() is gone. The implementation was complicated, and did not add much value:

    {
        package THING;
        sub new { bless({}, shift) }
    }

    my $thing = THING->new;
    ok($thing, "made a new thing");

The complete section after the conversion is:

    is([1], [1], "array comparison");
    is({a => 1}, {a => 1}, "hash comparison");
    is([1, 3, 2], bag { item 1; item 2; item 3; end }, "set comparison");

    use Data::Dumper;
    note Dumper([1, 2, 3]);

    {
        package THING;
        sub new { bless({}, shift) }
    }

    my $thing = THING->new;
    ok($thing, "made a new thing");

TOOLS THAT HAVE CHANGED

    isa_ok($thing, 'THING', '$thing');

    can_ok(__PACKAGE__, qw/ok is/);

In the Test::More manpage these functions are very confusing, and most people use them wrong!

isa_ok() from the Test::More manpage takes a thing, a class/reftype to check, and then uses the third argument as an alternative display name for the first argument (NOT a test name!).

can_ok() from the Test::More manpage is not consistent with isa_ok as all arguments after the first are subroutine names.

Test2 fixes this by making both functions consistent and obvious:

    isa_ok($thing, ['THING'], 'got a THING');

    can_ok(__PACKAGE__, [qw/ok is/], "have expected subs");

You will note that both functions take a thing, an arrayref as the second argument, then a test name as the third argument.

FINAL VERSION

    #####################
    # Boilerplate

    use Test2::V0;
    plan(11);

    use Scalar::Util;
    require Exporter;

    #####################
    # Simple assertions (no changes)

    ok(1, "pass");

    is("apple", "apple", "Simple string compare");

    like("foo bar baz", qr/bar/, "Regex match");

    #####################
    # Todo

    todo "These are todo" => sub {
        ok(0, "oops");
    };

    #####################
    # Deep comparisons

    is([1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3], "Deep comparison");

    #####################
    # Comparing references

    my $ref = [1];
    ref_is($ref, $ref, "Check that we have the same ref both times");

    #####################
    # Things that are gone

    is([1], [1], "array comparison");
    is({a => 1}, {a => 1}, "hash comparison");

    is([1, 3, 2], bag { item 1; item 2; item 3; end }, "set comparison");

    use Data::Dumper;
    note Dumper([1, 2, 3]);

    {
        package THING;
        sub new { bless({}, shift) }
    }

    my $thing = THING->new;

    #####################
    # Tools that changed

    isa_ok($thing, ['THING'], 'got a THING');

    can_ok(__PACKAGE__, [qw/ok is/], "have expected subs");

SEE ALSO

the Test2::Manual manpage - Primary index of the manual.

SOURCE

The source code repository for Test2-Manual can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.

MAINTAINERS

Chad Granum

AUTHORS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>Chad Granum

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2018 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/