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A freelance software engineer with experience in webapplications, databases and bioinformatics.
A contributor to Parrot and the person behind Pipp.
A physicist who worked with third sound in Helium-III and CCD X-ray detectors.
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Rewriting Pipp tests in PHP
Pipp is Parrot's PHP and it has small test suite that lives alongside the code in the Parrot repository. Most of the test scripts are written in Perl 5 using the Parrot::Test modules. So usually I tell Pipp to run some PHP code and check whether the expected result is printed. This works fine but is not very exiting.
More exciting, for some definition of exciting, is to run PHP scripts and emit TAP with a testing lib implemented in PHP. So Pipp this needs
- user defined functions with param passing
- global for keeping track of the running test count
- module loading
Stealing from Rakudo I now got most of that. global is still missing, so currently I pass in the current test number and increment it outside the testing functions.
Over the next days I plan to port a selection of the easier scripts to PHP. Things like TODO, SKIP and regex matching have to wait for later. Takers welcome!
help them think they understand.
--Larry Wall
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Implementing the testing library in PHP is of course also driving the development of Pipp. For example I got reminded that Pipp had no support for parameters of user defined functions.
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Pheme has used the PIR Test::More for a couple of years. All of Pheme's tests are written in Pheme.