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Wednesday May 16, 2007
10:05 AM

In Rant Mode: Part I

[ #33291 ]

I just feel the need to release some good old frustration. Move along. There's no real content here. :-)

Last night, I wasted a half hour of my life trying to figure out why this simple thing dies:

use_ok('Catalyst::View::TT');

After stripping away various modules and code, it all came down to this:

C:\Mango>perl -MTemplate::Timer -e 1
<NO OUTPUT>
C:\Mango>perl -MTest::MockObject -MTemplate::Timer -e 1
Died at C:/strawberry-perl/perl/site/lib/Template/Timer.pm line 63.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

That's bullshit. Plain and simple. I knew the dangers of Test::MockObject, but this is the first time it has bitten me in the ass. Grumble Grumble.


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  • Aside from the one RT that directly is about this problem, I'd say at least 2 other RT reports are because of the aggravation-at-a-distance caused by MockObject, or probably really the forced loading of UNIVERSAL::can...

    http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Template-Timer [cpan.org]

  • I knew the dangers of Test::MockObject...

    That it warns about buggy code and refuses to attempt to do the wrong thing? That's not an accidental feature....

    • That it loads modules that causes other modules to fail...without notice or reason...

      Warning about what you/I/we/they think is bad practice is one thing...causing outright failures is something totally different.

      Again, I'm not using UNIVERSAL::can... I'm using Test::MockObject. The act of loading and using T::MO should not cause other shit to completely die and blow up.

      • T::MO takes it in the shorts, no matter what I do.

        If I do nothing with regard to the methods can() and isa(), buggy code assumes that calling those methods as functions gives correct answers, and breaks the test code.

        If I try to work around that damage so that the results are somewhat correct, people complain that they've learned that their buggy code has bugs in it and blame T::MO.

        I'm starting to think that people don't want to find bugs through testing.

        • Well, that's sort of true really. I'd wager people just don't want to find other peoples bugs in testing. :-)
  • Problem: some test module breaks a lot of working code. Solution: don't use that module.
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