Test::...::Error(3pm)

💖 Test::Unit::Error — wait, no, it's Test::...::Error(3pm) 💖

okay bestie so you found this page in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (that's the <pink>3pm</pink> part, iykyk) and the title is literally rendered as Test::...::Error(3pm) because the real name is too long for the header and the man page tooling just gave up and went .... iconic honestly. anyway. let's get into it. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Test::Unit::Error — the unit testing framework exception class 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

This class is not intended to be used directly.

like, do not. it's not for you. it's for the framework. hands off, bestie 🙈

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea. This class is what the framework uses to communicate that a run-time error happened — and by run-time error we mean stuff like syntax errors and the like. NOT failed tests, because failed tests get classified as failures, which is a whole different category. important distinction, no cap.

When one of those errors occurs, an instance of this class gets thrown — and then it gets caught internally inside the framework. so it never actually escapes out to you. it's the framework's own little private drama that it handles by itself. main character energy but make it internal. 💀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (c) 2000-2002, 2005 the PerlUnit Development Team (see Test::Unit or the AUTHORS file included in this distribution).

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

so yeah, it's free, it's Perl-licensed, it's been around since the year 2000 and it's still here. a legend. ⭐

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Test::Unit::Exception
• Test::Unit::Assert

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and that's the whole page!! 💖 thanks for reading bestie, go write some tests 🧚

this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-04-05, and this page is Test::...::Error(3pm) — yeah the ... is really part of the name up top, we don't make the rules 🎀 bye!! 🍓