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NAME

Test2::Manual::Tooling - Manual page for tool authors.

DESCRIPTION

This section covers writing new tools, plugins, and other Test2 components.

TOOL TUTORIALS

FIRST TOOL

Test2::Manual::Tooling::FirstTool - Introduction to writing tools by cloning ok().

MOVING FROM Test::Builder

Test2::Manual::Tooling::TestBuilder - This section maps Test::Builder methods to Test2 concepts.

NESTING TOOLS

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Nesting - How to call other tools from your tool.

TOOLS WITH SUBTESTS

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Subtest - How write tools that make use of subtests.

TESTING YOUR TEST TOOLS

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Testing - How to write tests for your test tools.

PLUGIN TUTORIALS

TAKING ACTION WHEN A NEW TOOL STARTS

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::ToolStarts - How to add behaviors that occur when a tool starts work.

TAKING ACTION AFTER A TOOL IS DONE

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::ToolCompletes - How to add behaviors that occur when a tool completes work.

TAKING ACTION AT THE END OF TESTING

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::TestingDone - How to add behaviors that occur when testing is complete (IE done_testing, or end of test).

TAKING ACTION JUST BEFORE EXIT

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::TestExit - How to safely add pre-exit behaviors.

WRITING A SIMPLE JSONL FORMATTER

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Formatter - How to write a custom formatter, in our case a JSONL formatter.

WHERE TO FIND HOOKS AND APIS

Test2::API is the global API. This is primarily used by plugins that provide global behavior.
Test2::Hub is the base class for all hubs. This is where hooks for manipulating events, or running things at the end of testing live.

SEE ALSO

Test2::Manual - Primary index of the manual.

SOURCE

The source code repository for Test2-Manual can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2018 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

2024-06-23 perl v5.40.0