NAME TAP::Harness::Archive - Create an archive of TAP test results SYNOPSIS use TAP::Harness::Archive; my $harness = TAP::Harness::Archive->new(\%args); $harness->runtests(@tests); DESCRIPTION This module is a direct subclass of TAP::Harness and behaves in exactly the same way except for one detail. In addition to outputting a running progress of the tests and an ending summary it can also capture all of the raw TAP from the individual test files or streams into an archive file (".tar" or ".tar.gz"). METHODS All methods are exactly the same as our base TAP::Harness except for the following. new In addition to the options that TAP::Harness allow to this method, we also allow the following: archive This is the name of the archive file to generate. We use Archive::Tar in the background so we only support ".tar" and ".tar.gz" archive file formats. extra_files This is an array reference to extra files that you want to include in the TAP archive but which are not TAP files themselves. This is useful if you want to include some log files that contain useful information about the test run. extra_properties This is a hash reference of extra properties that you've collected during your test run. Some things you might want to include are the Perl version, the system's architecture, the operating system, etc. runtests Takes the same arguments as TAP::Harness's version and returns the same thing (a TAP::Parser::Aggregator object). The only difference is that in addition to the normal test running and progress output we also create the TAP Archive when it's all done. aggregator_from_archive This class method will return a TAP::Parser::Aggregator object when given a TAP Archive to open and parse. It's pretty much the reverse of creating a TAP Archive from using "new" and "runtests". It takes a hash of arguments which are as follows: archive The path to the archive file. This is required. parser_callbacks This is a hash ref containing callbacks for the TAP::Parser objects that are created while parsing the TAP files. See the TAP::Parser documentation for details about these callbacks. made_parser_callback This callback is executed every time a new TAP::Parser object is created. It will be passed the new parser object, the name of the file to be parsed, and also the full (temporary) path of that file. meta_yaml_callback This is a subroutine that will be called if we find and parse a YAML file containing meta information about the test run in the archive. The structure of the YAML file will be passed in as an argument. my $aggregator = TAP::Harness::Archive->aggregator_from_archive( { archive => 'my_tests.tar.gz', parser_callbacks => { plan => sub { warn "Nice to see you plan ahead..." }, unknown => sub { warn "Your TAP is bad!" }, }, made_parser_callback => sub { my ($parser, $file, $full_path) = @_; warn "$file is temporarily located at $full_path\n"; } } ); AUTHOR Michael Peters, "" BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-tap-harness-archive at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at . I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc TAP::Harness::Archive You can also look for information at: * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation * CPAN Ratings * RT: CPAN's request tracker * Search CPAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS * A big thanks to Plus Three, LP () for sponsoring my work on this module and other open source pursuits. * Andy Armstrong COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2007 Michael Peters, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.