App::pherkin(3pm)

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version 0.87 · 4 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

App::pherkin — bestie, it's literally just "run Cucumber tests from the command line" and honestly? iconic. 👑

✨ VERSION ✨

version 0.87 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so this is the whole vibe:

pherkin
pherkin some/path/features/

that's it. that's the tea. 🫖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so pherkin is gonna go snooping around the directory you told it about — or if you didn't tell it anything, it'll just default to ./features/ — looking for two things, and it wants both:

  • feature files, aka literally any file matching *.feature 📄
  • step definition files, aka any file matching *_steps.pl 🧚

then it loads up all those step definitions and goes ahead and executes the features. no cap. 🔥

and when it runs, the colours are giving a whole traffic light moment, assuming you're on the default output harness:

  • steps that pass get printed in green ✅
  • steps that fail get printed in red 💀
  • steps that have no step definition at all get printed in yellow, because that's the TODO signal 👀

💅 METHODS 💅

🌈 run

the App::pherkin class — which is, like, the whole engine behind the pherkin command — does all its thing through the run() method. 🏃‍♀️

what does it take? currently just:

  • a single path, as a string 🛣️
  • or nothing at all, it's flexible like that 🙈

and what does it give you back? a Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Result object covering all the steps that ran. every single one. periodt. 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Peter Sergeant pete@clueball.com 🫶

🎀 LICENSE 🎀

Copyright 2019-2023, Erik Huelsmann
Copyright 2011-2019, Peter Sergeant; Licensed under the same terms as Perl

okay so that's the whole page, and lemme just say — this is from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-05-29, and it's the App::pherkin(3pm) manual. go run some features bestie, you're gonna slay. 💖✨🦋

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