Test2:...esting(3perl)

💅 Test2::Require::AutomatedTesting 💅

okay bestie, real talk — this is the Test2::Require::AutomatedTesting page from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, third section of the perl manuals. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Test2::Require::AutomatedTesting — the module that makes your test only run when the AUTOMATED_TESTING environment variable is set. periodt. 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the vibe is: everybody writes tests that should only fire off when AUTOMATED_TESTING is set in the environment. it's a whole thing. it's common practice. it's basically tradition at this point.

and this module? this module does that (admittedly trivial) work for you. like, yes, it's a tiny little job, nobody's pretending it's rocket science 😭 but now you don't have to hand-roll it every single time. iconic behavior, honestly. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

look how simple this is. not me getting emotional over four lines of code:

use Test2::Require::AutomatedTesting;

...

done_testing;

yeah. that's it. that's the whole thing. slay. ✨

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👑 SOURCE 👑

the source code repository for Test2-Suite lives right here, bestie, go peek:

https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/

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🎀 MAINTAINERS 🎀

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

shoutout to Chad, holding it down fr fr 🫡

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

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

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

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and that's the whole page, no cap. every flag-free, option-free, environment-variable-having detail intact 💖

so this was perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17, and per the perl manual page naming convention, that trailing thing was Test2:...esting(3perl) — mwah, go write some tests that only run when you want them to 🧚⭐