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Perl::Critic::Policy::TestingAndDebugging::RequireTestLabels - Tests should all have labels.

NAME  AFFILIATION  DESCRIPTION  CONFIGURATION  AUTHOR  COPYRIGHT 

NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::TestingAndDebugging::RequireTestLabels − Tests should all have labels.

AFFILIATION

This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

DESCRIPTION

Most Perl modules with regression tests use Test::More as infrastructure for writing and running those tests. It has an easy, procedural syntax for writing comparisons of results to expectations.

Most of the Test::More functions allow the programmer to add an optional label that describes what each test is trying to judge. When a test goes wrong, these labels are very useful for quickly determining where the problem originated.

This policy enforces that all Test::More functions have labels where applicable. This only applies to code that has a "use Test::More" or "require Test::More" declaration (see below to add more test modules to the list).

CONFIGURATION

A list of additional modules to require label parameters be passed to their methods can be specified with the "modules" option. The list must consist of whitespace−delimited, fully−qualified module names. For example:

[TestingAndDebugging::RequireTestLabels]
modules = My::Test::SubClass Some::Other::Module

The module list always implicitly includes Test::More.

AUTHOR

Chris Dolan <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2006−2021 Chris Dolan.

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


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se