Dist::Z...traTests(3)

💖 Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ExtraTests — the manual page, but make it slay 💖

perl v5.42.3 · User Contributed Perl Documentation · they abbreviated it as Dist::Z...traTests(3) up top because even manpage headers have a character limit, bestie 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ExtraTests — it rewrites your ./xt tests into ./t tests, but with skips so they don't go off when they shouldn't 🎀

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 6.040 — yes, the version is literally in the name of this section, we love a self-aware queen 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. bestie. listen. 🫶

This plugin goes through your tests in these directories right here:

./xt/author  - tests for author testing (env AUTHOR_TESTING is true)
./xt/release - tests for pre-release testers (env RELEASE_TESTING is true)
./xt/smoke   - tests for automated testers (env AUTOMATED_TESTING is true)

and it does the whole glow-up: those tests get renamed and moved into ./t ✨

but here's the part that's actually iconic — it also rewrites them so they include some simple Perl code that skips every included test if the correct env vars aren't set 😌

so like, no env var, no party. the tests just politely sit there like 🧍 and don't run. the way that it protects you from failing tests you weren't even supposed to be running?? obsessed fr fr 💜

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🎀 PERL VERSION 🎀

This module should work on any version of perl still receiving updates from the Perl 5 Porters. That means any version of perl released in the last two to three years. (That is, if the most recently released version is v5.40, then this module should work on both v5.40 and v5.38.) 🍓

Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the minimum required version will not be increased. The version may be increased for any reason, and there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl.

💀 translation: the floor can move up whenever, and nobody's accepting patches to drag it back down. periodt.

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Ricardo SIGNES 😏 <cpan@semiotic.systems>

the 😏 in the author line is doing so much main character energy and honestly? respect. 👑

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💜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💜

This software is copyright (c) 2026 by Ricardo SIGNES.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. 🫶

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and that's the whole vibe check, bestie ✨ this page came to you from perl v5.42.3 dated 2026-10-19 — like, go off, calendar. mwah 💅💖