Tag: travis

Previously I had a kludge to allow coverage testing on v5.8 through Travis CI. I used cpanm to install exactly Devel::Cover 1.23 because it supported v5.8. The problem now is that it doesn’t support v5.26 and my automated testing fails. Continue reading “Skipping automated coverage testing for v5.8 on Travis”

I’ve had a problem with automated coverage testing and v5.8 (the oldest Perl that I support). Devel::Cover made some changes after 1.23 so that it doesn’t guarantee support for v5.8 and earlier. It might work but you’re lucky if it is. Continue reading “Using an older version of Devel::Cover to test v5.8”

Intermediate Perl shows the basics of Perl testing. We show you how to write test programs and how to run those from the command line. That’s the language-specific stuff and within the scope of the book. You can take it further though. You can set up your code in a “continuous integration” system that runs the tests whenever you commit change (most of these trigger on a source control commit). You commit your code and grab some more coffee while your tests trigger themselves. Martin Fowler has some interesting thoughts on CI and wikipedia has a comparison matrix of CI services. Continue reading “Automated testing with Travis CI”