Dist::Zilla Get More Friends

By byterock on March 5, 2018 7:00 PM

Plug-in test day yet again here in the Dist-Pen.

After getting my Legal test to work in yesterday's post, funny thin is metacpan still show ver 0.02 as the latest not 0.03 for some reason, I am going to plink away at seven more sisters today;

NewVersion

This one is a 'Release' test case for those out there that will do not automatically increment their version in some way. At this point I want to try, once I get all my testing in order, to use the Dist::Zilla::plug-in::Git::NextVersion plug-in so I will leave this one out for now, but will keep is in the tool bin just in case I can't play nice with my GitHub account.

NoBreakpoints

An 'Author' test case that provides 'Test::NoBreakpoints'. Well this is one for the real Poindexters out there as it looks for breakpoints in you perl code, to be specificity '$DB::single' not something I have ever used. It is a good example of danger found with name-space pollution, In this case the DB is for DeBug while 86.43% of the rest of the world would see this is DataBase.

NoTabs

This 'Author' test provides the 'Test::NoTabs' case which I actually can use so I am going to add it in, after I check the CPANTS and see a nice sea of green, I spent a little time installing with CPAN and then added this



[Test::Legal]

++[Test::NoTabs]

[Git::Check]

to my '.ini' file and ran my test case like this dzil xtest author/no and got



Building Database-Accessor

xt/author/no-tabs.t .. ok

All tests successful.

Files=1, Tests=32,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.07 usr  0.01 sys +  0.11 cusr  0.03 csys =  0.22 CPU)

Result: PASS

So I guess all that time running my code though Perl::Tidy payed off.

PAUSE::Permissions

A 'Release' test that provides the Test::PAUSE::Permissions test case. A real neat one for me as I flip between development platforms and the odd time Window permission can cause you problems. So after a little while I got every thing installed I added;



[Test::NoTabs]

[Test::PAUSE::Permissions]

[Git::Check]

and then gave dzil xtest release/p a go with this result;



Building Database-Accessor

xt/release/pause-permissions.t .. skipped: Can't determine who is going to release.

Files=1, Tests=0,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr  0.01 sys +  0.33 cusr  0.06 csys =  0.45 CPU)

Result: NOTESTS

Ok I will keep this one for now and delay the set up till when I am ready to try a release.

Perl::Critic::Freenode

An 'Author' level test case that applies the coding style from the Perl Beginners' Site well not something I am in need of so this one is not going in.

Pod::Coverage::Configurable

Another keeper here this 'Author' level test that give me highly configurable POD testing so after a little while installing everything I added



[Test::PAUSE::Permissions]

[Test::Pod::Coverage::Configurable]

class = Pod::Coverage::Moose

also_private = BUILDARGS

also_private = qr/_^/

[Git::Check]

into my '.ini' file as I want to try a few things my 'BUILDARGS' sub and anything starting with a '_' will be skipped and I am using the 'Pod::Coverage::Moose' rather than the default 'Pod::Coverage'. So with a quick 'dzil xtest author/po' I get



#   Failed test 'pod coverage for Database::Accessor'

#   at xt/author/pod-coverage.t line 43.

# Coverage for Database::Accessor is 0.0%, with 5 naked subroutines:

#       BUILD

#       create

#       delete

#       retrieve

#       update

#   Failed test 'pod coverage for Database::Accessor::Constants'

#   at xt/author/pod-coverage.t line 43.

…

Which I expected as I haven't written much POD yet. Things did work for me as the 'sub _loadDADClassesFromDir ' from Database::Accessor is skipped so a great tool for me.

Pod::LinkCheck

Another 'Author' level test that I am going to add in. This one provides a test case that will look at your pod to make sure you have no bad links in your POD. I did add it in;



also_private = qr/_^/

++[Test::Pod::LinkCheck]

[Git::Check]

and after some installs I gave ' dzil xtest author/pod-l' a go and got;



xt/author/pod-linkcheck.t .. ok

All tests successful.

Files=1, Tests=4,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr  0.01 sys +  0.55 cusr  0.08 csys =  0.67 CPU)

Result: PASS

which is hardly surprising as I have very little POD so far.

All in all not a bad day three new test buddies for my Dist::Zilla and one for later.