Test2::...Tooling(3pm)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Test2::Manual::Tooling is literally the manual page for tool authors, bestie. That’s the whole vibe. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This section is all about writing new tools, plugins, and other Test2 components. It’s giving tool-author main character energy, no cap. ✨

🛠️ TOOL TUTORIALS 🛠️

Okay so these are the glow-up tutorials for making your own tools 💅🔥

🐣 FIRST TOOL 🐣

Test2::Manual::Tooling::FirstTool — intro to writing tools by cloning ok(). Iconic starter move, fr fr. 👑

🚚 MOVING FROM Test::Builder 🚚

Test2::Manual::Tooling::TestBuilder — this section maps Test::Builder methods to Test2 concepts. The way that migration is handled? Obsessed. 🦋

🪆 NESTING TOOLS 🪆

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Nesting — how to call other tools from your tool. Tools calling tools? That’s main character energy, lowkey. 🔥

🧪 TOOLS WITH SUBTESTS 🧪

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Subtest — how write tools that make use of subtests. Keeping the original phrasing, bestie 😭; subtests are the moment. 🎀

✅ TESTING YOUR TEST TOOLS ✅

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Testing — how to write tests for your test tools. Testception, highkey iconic. ✅

🔌 PLUGIN TUTORIALS 🔌

Plugins are where you add behaviors at specific moments, and yes, the drama is the point 💅✨

🎬 TAKING ACTION WHEN A NEW TOOL STARTS 🎬

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::ToolStarts — how to add behaviors that occur when a tool starts work. Start-of-tool slay. 🎬

🏁 TAKING ACTION AFTER A TOOL IS DONE 🏁

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::ToolCompletes — how to add behaviors that occur when a tool completes work. Completion vibes only. 🏁

🎉 TAKING ACTION AT THE END OF TESTING 🎉

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::TestingDone — how to add behaviors that occur when testing is complete (IE done_testing, or end of test). End-of-testing party, periodt. 🎉

🚪 TAKING ACTION JUST BEFORE EXIT 🚪

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::TestExit — how to safely add pre-exit behaviors. Emphasis on safely, bestie; we love a responsible exit. 🚪✨

🧾 WRITING A SIMPLE JSONL FORMATTER 🧾

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Formatter — how to write a custom formatter, in our case a JSONL formatter. Custom formatter realness, iykyk. 🧾🌈

🗺️ WHERE TO FIND HOOKS AND APIS 🗺️

Wondering where the hooks and APIs live? Say less, bestie. 👀

🌍 global API 🌍

Test2::API is the global API. This is primarily used by plugins that provide global behavior. Global-behavior plugins, rise up. 🌍

🧩 In hubs 🧩

Test2::Hub is the base class for all hubs. This is where hooks for manipulating events, or running things at the end of testing live. Hub HQ, no cap. 🧩

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Test2::Manual — primary index of the manual. The mothership index, fr. 👑

📦 SOURCE 📦

The source code repository for Test2-Manual can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/. Go click, bestie. 💖

🧑‍🔧 MAINTAINERS 🧑‍🔧

• Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org> — maintainer. Iconic. 🌟

✍️ AUTHORS ✍️

• Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org> — author. Same legend, different heading. 👑

⚖️ 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/

That’s the page, bestie — from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03, with the manual name Test2::...Tooling(3pm) in the footer energy. Go make tools that ate, and remember: vibe check your tests. 💅✨🎀