Test::S...n::Class(3)

💖 Test::Stream::Plugin::Class 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for Test::Stream::Plugin::Class — a lil User Contributed Perl Documentation moment (yes, it lives in the Test::S...n::Class(3) slot, that's just the truncated vibe of the name, don't panic). Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

Test::Stream::Plugin::Class — it's the plugin that loads the package you're testing and gives you cute lil aliases so you don't have to keep typing the whole name. iconic behaviour honestly 💅

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💀 DEPRECATED 💀

okay so we have to have a serious moment. no cap, this distribution is deprecated. it's been retired in favor of Test2, Test2::Suite, and Test2::Workflow. rip to a real one 🫶

if you need to make the switch, there's a whole conversion guide waiting for you over at Test::Stream::Manual::ToTest2. go read it, bestie, your future self will thank you.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: this plugin lets you designate a class as THE class you are testing. like, you point at it, and the plugin will:

• load that class for you 📦
• hand you shortcuts for accessing it 🔑

and the plot twist? other plugins can also make use of the exports, so they get to be smarter too. teamwork makes the dream work fr fr ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

look at this beautiful little code moment:

use Test::Stream Class => ['Package::You::Are::Testing'];

# You can access the class name using either the $CLASS variable, or the
# CLASS() function.
can_ok(CLASS(), qr/foo bar/);
isa_ok($CLASS,  'Package::Parent');

the way you get the class name two whole ways — either the $CLASS variable or the CLASS() function. not me being obsessed with options 😭👑

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🎀 EXPORTS 🎀

here's what you get handed when you use this plugin:

• $class = CLASS() — this function returns the class name. simple. elegant. slay.
• $CLASS — this package variable contains the class name. it's giving main character energy in variable form 💜

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🔥 SOURCE 🔥

the source code repository for Test::Stream lives right here, bestie:

http://github.com/Test-More/Test-Stream/

go forth and browse 🌈

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👑 MAINTAINERS 👑

• Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

• Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright 2015 Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com>.

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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quick vibe check: all the license stuff above is real and matters — don't skip it just because it's at the bottom of the page 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 this was Test::S...n::Class(3), coming to you from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection. mwah, take care of yourself and your test suites 🫶✨