Test::use::ok(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Okay so bestie, welcome to the Test::use::ok(3) page — from the User Contributed Perl Documentation shelf, no less. This module is literally the alternative to Test::More::use_ok, and its whole vibe is making your test scripts behave at BEGIN time without you having to remember extra BEGIN scaffolding. Iconic behavior, honestly.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use ok 'Some::Module';

That’s it. That’s the whole synopsis. Short, sweet, and serving main character energy 💅.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So, according to the Test::More documentation, the recommended move is to run use_ok() inside a BEGIN block — that way functions are exported at compile-time and prototypes are properly honored. The docs said it, so we respect it, periodt.

That means instead of writing this:

use_ok( 'Some::Module' );
use_ok( 'Other::Module' );

You should write this:

BEGIN { use_ok( 'Some::Module' ); }
BEGIN { use_ok( 'Other::Module' ); }

And like… valid. But ngl, people often either forget to add BEGIN, or they mistakenly group use_ok with other tests in a single BEGIN block. And that can create subtle differences in execution order. Not a slay. More of a “wait, why is this test acting weird” moment 😭.

With this module, you simply change all use_ok in test scripts to use ok, and they will be executed at BEGIN time. The explicit space after use makes it clear that this is a single compile-time action. The way that works is genuinely so clean. Obsessed 🫶.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Test::More — the icon, the legend, the reference point. Go read it, iykyk 💜.

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👑 MAINTAINER 👑

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org> — that’s the maintainer, bestie. Respect the name, fr fr 💖.

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🌈 CC0 1.0 Universal 🌈

To the extent possible under law, 唐鳳 has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Test::use::ok.

This work is published from Taiwan.

<https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>

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Sign-off sparkle: this adorable little page is rockin’ perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-28, and yes bestie, it’s still Test::use::ok(3) — bye, love u, go write those tests 💖✨🎀