Test::...stener(3pm)

🌸 Test::Unit::Listener — the tea ☕

okay bestie, so this is Test::Unit::Listener, a 3pm page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection. yeah the header chops it up all weird like Test::...stener(3pm) but it's the same file, don't worry 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

Test::Unit::Listener — unit testing framework abstract base class 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

This class is not intended to be used directly

no cap, that's literally the whole synopsis. she said don't touch me directly and she MEANT it 😭

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the vibe: this class is what the framework uses to define the interface of a test listener. it's an abstract base class, and it gets implemented by the test runners. so like, she's the blueprint, not the building 🏗️✨

and here's the funny part — bc of the nature of the Perl OO implementation, this class is not really needed. like at all. she's not doing heavy lifting, she's serving as documentation of the interface. she's a mood board. she's the Pinterest inspo. iconic honestly 👑

now the actual tea, and this is the part you gotta remember:

each of the add_ methods gets two arguments: "test" and "exception".

• the test is a Test::Unit::Test 🧪
• the exception is a Test::Unit::Exception 💀

and typically? you wanna display test->name() and keep the rest as details. that's the move. that's it. display the name, stash the rest 🍓

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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::TestRunner
• Test::Unit::TkTestRunner

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and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs ✨

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