NAME Test::Chunks - Chunky Data Driven Testing Support SYNOPSIS use Test::Chunks -delims => qw(=== +++); use Pod::Simple; plan tests => 1 * chunks; for my $chunk (chunks) { diff_is( Pod::Simple::pod_to_html($chunk->pod), $chunk->text, $chunk->description, ); } __END__ === Header 1 Test +++ pod =head1 The Main Event +++ html

The Main Event

=== List Test +++ =over =item * one =item * two =back +++ html DESCRIPTION There are many testing situations where you have a set of inputs and a set of expected outputs and you want to make sure your process turns each input chunk into the corresponding output chunk. Test::Chunks allows you do this with a minimal amount of code. Test::Chunks is optimized for input and output chunks that span multiple lines of text. EXPORTED FUNCTIONS Test::Chunks extends Test::More and exports all of its functions. So you can basically write your tests the same as Test::More. Test::Chunks exports a few more functions though: chunks() The most important function is "chunks". In list context it returns a list of "Test::Chunk" objects that are generated from the test specification in the "DATA" section of your test file. In scalar context it returns the number of objects. This is useful to calculate your Test::More plan. diff_is() Like Test::More's "is()", but on failure reports a diff of the expected and actual output. This is often very useful when your chunks are large. TEST SPECIFICATION Test::Chunks allows you to specify your test data in an external file, the DATA section of your program or from a scalar variable containing all the text input. AUTHOR Brian Ingerson COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2005. Brian Ingerson. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html