App::Cmd::Tester::CaptureExternal - Extends App::Cmd::Tester to capture from external subprograms
version 0.330
use Test::More tests => 4; use App::Cmd::Tester::CaptureExternal; use YourApp; my $result = test_app(YourApp => [ qw(command --opt value) ]); like($result->stdout, qr/expected output/, 'printed what we expected'); is($result->stderr, '', 'nothing sent to sderr'); ok($result->output, "STDOUT concatenated with STDERR");
App::Cmd::Tester provides a useful scaffold for testing applications, but it is unable to capture output generated from any external subprograms that are invoked from the application.
This subclass uses an alternate mechanism for capturing output (Capture::Tiny) that does capture from external programs, with one major limitation.
It is not possible to capture externally from both STDOUT and STDERR while also having appropriately interleaved combined output. Therefore, the output from this subclass simply concatenates the two.
output
You can still use output for testing if there is any output at all or for testing if something appeared in either output stream, but you can't rely on the ordering being correct between lines to STDOUT and lines to STDERR.
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Ricardo Signes.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install App::Cmd, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm App::Cmd
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install App::Cmd
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.