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Capture STDOUT in Perl Tests Permalink

Perl, Testing Added less than a year ago

If you are unlucky enough to be working with a sub that literally prints things out, but you would like to test what it is printing, you can intercept the prints using this lovely library:

use IO::CaptureOutput qw(capture);

my ($stdout, $stderr);
capture(sub { sub_that_prints_things($arg) }, \$stdout, \$stderr);

... now you've captured all the printed info from that sub into the two scalars!

This is very handy for testing.

The Bull Shark's Guide... Permalink

Subversion, Best-Practice, Agile, Testing, Git Added less than a year ago

... To Modern Software Development is a concise list of technical points for a software house to implement. It has a basis in Agile methodologies but doesn't preach a certain one.

Modern is being proactive and efficient. It is being prepared, having backups, examining information, deploying with minimal mistakes and being able to recover and review when mistakes are made. Modern is being well-tested and writing maintainable code. Modern is being able to release regularly and easily.

Testing Email Permalink

Testing Added more than a year ago and last edited more than a year ago

In my last full-time job I had to test some account creation and modification code. Certain actions sent emails when they were successful and I needed to find out whether the emails were received. I had to do this over multiple accounts, which ordinarily would involve multiple email addresses.

One solution might have been to setup multiple sendmail aliases on a local network.

The solution I used involved the website Mailinator. Using mailinator it is easy to setup multiple fake accounts in your code with different (and random) email addresses.

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