Test2::...s::Defer(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Test2::Tools::Defer — write tests that get executed at a later time. Also hii bestie, welcome to the Test2::...s::Defer(3) page, a User Contributed Perl Documentation moment. Periodt. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so picture this: sometimes you need to test things BEFORE loading the necessary functions. This module lets you do that. You can write tests, and then have them run later, after Test2 is loaded. You tell it what test function to run, and what arguments to give it. The function name and arguments will be stored to be executed later. When ready, run do_def() to kick them off once the functions are defined. Iconic behavior, honestly. 🦋

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

use strict;
use warnings;

use Test2::Tools::Defer;

BEGIN {
    def ok => (1, 'pass');
    def is => ('foo', 'foo', 'runs is');
    ...
}

use Test2::Tools::Basic;

do_def(); # Run the tests

# Declare some more tests to run later:
def ok => (1, "another pass");
...

do_def(); # run the new tests

done_testing;

🎀 EXPORTS 🎀

• def function => @args; — this will store the function name, and the arguments to be run later. Note that each package has a separate store of tests to run, bestie. Keep that in mind. 💅
• do_def() — this will run all the stored tests. It will also reset the list to be empty so you can add more tests to run even later. Slay. ✨

👑 SOURCE 👑

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

🧚 MAINTAINERS 🧚

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

🌸 AUTHORS 🌸

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

🔥 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/

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