Test::...Failure(3pm)

💖 Test::...Failure — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (section 3pm, obvi), and the whole thing is literally titled Test::...Failure — dots and all, no I'm not kidding, that's the name, we don't question the name 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

Test::Unit::Failure — unit testing framework exception class 🎀

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

This class is not intended to be used directly 💀

fr fr bestie, hands off. it's an internal thing. no touchy 🙈

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: this class is what the framework uses to communicate the result of assertions. when an assertion fails, it throws an instance of this class ✨

and like — important distinction, iykyk — "failures" here means failed tests, not syntax errors and the like. those other ones get classified as errors, which is a whole different thing. don't mix them up, that's the tea 💅

so: failed assertion → Test::Unit::Failure instance gets thrown → the framework knows what's up 👑

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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. 🌟

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

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

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and that's the whole page bestie, we ate, no crumbs left 🍓 this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-04-05, signing off with main character energy 🧚💖✨