Changes for Perl extension Test-Class

0.36 - or the "Adrian should have released this earlier" release [2010-08-19] (Thanks to Mark Morgan for doing all the useful work on this one!)

• New add_filter() method allows global filtering of test methods
• Apply t/todo.t patch to fix RT#55324 (test bug, not Test::Class bug). This makes the test suite pass with Test::Simple 0.95_01 and greater.

0.35 - or the "Yay! Open Source For The Win!" release [2010-04-28]

• Introducing Ovid & Mark Morgan in "Folk with commit bits who aren't afraid to use them!"
• Add repository information to the META.yml (via Build.PL).
• Add dates to all releases in Change file. This resolves RT#45581
• If extra tests are found in the test control methods, report the class name along with the method name.

0.34 - or the "Abandon ship!" release [2010-03-08]

• Harmonised $VERSION to the same value (Adam Kennedy)
• Devel::Symdump has a bug which is really a bug in core and won't be fixed. Dumped it and switched to MRO::Compat instead (tokuhirom)
• Add "build_requires" (Alexandr Ciornii)

0.33 - or the "ZOMGIBROKECPAN" release [2009-09-21]

• Make the test scripts adaptive to Test::More diagnostic changes in version 0.88
• Skip invalid package names in Test::Class::Load::_load so that we don't try to load classes in .svn/et-al paths
• Removed #! script invocation line from the MethodInfo.pm module

0.32_1 - or the "Birmingham QA 2009" release [2008-03-28]

• Removed pointless use of Test::Exception in t/bad-autoloads.t to stop bogus warnings that were confusing some folk
• Added add_testinfo for Test::Class::Sugar (thanks Piers Cawley)

0.31 - or the "good god adrian is still alive" release [2008-09-14]

• Downgraded IO::File dependancy to 1.09 (RT#38424 - thanks Mark Stosberg)

0.30 - or the "Oslo QA 2008 #2" release [2008-04-07]

• Move up to depend on Test::Simple 0.78 to stomp on RT##33809

0.29 - or the "Oslo QA 2008" release [2008-04-06]

• Fixed some broken edge cases where you didn't get a plan when you had tests in a shutdown method, and no tests in the rest of your class
• Test::Class::Load can now be subclassed so you can add your own filters for what is considered a test class (patch from Cosimo Streppone)
• Described minimum perl as '5.006001' rather than '5.6.1' so old perls understand what we're talking about.
• Fixed typo in docs (thanks Tony Edwardson)

0.28 - or the "just for the debian folk" release [2008-01-15]

• Downgraded some dependencies to avoid some bogus warnings on Debian (thanks Gunnar Wolf & Hynek)

0.27 - or the "Adrian cannot write in English" release [2007-12-29]

• Fixed a couple of typos/grammar stupidities (thank Jim Brandt)

0.26 - or the "really working on windows this time (fingers crossed)" release [2007-12-10]

• Tests that look at test_err from Test::Builder::Tester now use caller() to get the filename - just like Test::Builder. So hopefully everything should work on all platforms this time.
• Updated the Test::* version dependencies to something vaguely modern
• Fixed runtests_die.t, which still had platform-specific paths in

0.25 - or the "idiotic platform specific tests fixed" release [2007-12-07]

• Fixed RT#31122 that was failing tests on Strawberry Perl (thanks to Chris Dolan)

0.24 - or the "hating perl's broken object model" release [2007-03-01]

• Stopped throwing warnings when Contextual::Return was loaded due to the AUTOLOADING of isa() (thank's to agianni)
• If you are filtering with TEST_METHOD your startup/shutdown methods still get executed (thanks Chris Dolan)

0.23 - or the "damn David and his smoke testing" release [2007-02-23]

• Added explicit dependency on Test::Simple for those odd folk who have old Test::Simple releases running with a recent Test::Builder::Tester (thanks David Cantrell)

0.22 - or the "++ becomes a legal regex" release [2006-11-29]

• Factored out some common code
• Added test for Test::Class::Load not loading modules successfully
• Tidied up all the T::C::L test libraries into t/test-libs
• Added patch from Nicholas Clark to make T::C work with blead perl

0.21 - or the "we're all growed up" release [2006-11-01]

• expected_tests() gives a sensible info when given undef as an argument
• fixed bug when we repeatedly wrapped Test::Builder::ok with extra Test::Class functionality every time we run a test method
• Test::Class::Load only adds directories to @INC once

0.20 - or the "you failed where?" release [2006-10-19]

• Added an extra diagnostic line on test failures that list the method that failed and the class being tested. Makes locating test failures in test class hierarchies much simpler.
• Added some tests for plan math for startup/shutdown methods (phew they worked!)

0.19 - or the "last RT bug crushed" release [2006-10-11]

• You now get a sensible error message if you load Test::Class after the CHECK phase where the :Test attribute gets applied.
• Added "A NOTE ON LOADING TEST CLASSES" section that describes the issue of the :Test attribute being applied at CHECK time

0.18 - or the "damn multiple inheritence" release [2006-10-06]

• You now get a sensible error message if Test::Class's new() gets overridden badly via a subclass or multiple inheritance

0.17 - or the "wot I did on the train" release [2006-10-06]

• Removed pointless uses of UNIVERSAL::isa
• We rename "test name" to "test description" to confirm with current TAP nomenclature
• Added some pointers to third party documentation
• Added references to Test::Object, Test::Group and Test::Block
• Actually added spelling.t to the distro (sigh)

0.16 - or the "sepling mist ook!" release [2006-10-04]

• Added (optional) spelling tests for the POD in t/developer
• Fixed a whole bunch of spelling mistakes
• Added some references to Test::Class::Load in the main Test::Class POD
• Added more modules that use Test::Class to SEE ALSO

0.15 - or the "down. down. deeper and down" release [2006-10-03]

• Now works with Test::Deep, which annoyingly defines its own isa() subroutine. This no longer confuses Test::Class into thinking Test::Deep isa Test::Class.
• Added some more modules that use Test::Class to SEE ALSO

0.14 - or the "for the Windows folk" release [2006-10-02]

• Test::Class::Load now works on Windows (thanks Kenichi Ishigaki for the patch)
• Tests should now pass on Windows (thanks Kenichi Ishigaki again!)

0.13 - or the "just to make Ovid & David happy" release [2006-09-29]

• Added Test::Class::Load (thanks Ovid) to allow you to easily load test classes
• Added ability to run a specific test or set of tests based upon a regular expression specified in the TEST_METHOD environment variable (thanks to Ovid again). This mechanism is likely to change in the future but it's useful enough to go in now.
• Fixed some broken code in the POD (thanks Jeff Deifik)
• Removed Cwd from prerequisites - it's core

0.12 - or the "to avoid public mocking" release [2006-09-29]

• Fixed the installation errors that everybody has been rightly complaining about for the last year:
  • Prerequisities in requires, not build_requires
  • Tests no longer rely on hard coded test output (thanks Mart’n Ferrari and Nicholas Clark for patches)
  • Require appropriate version of Test::Exception
• Added link to del.icio.us perl+testing links in POD
• Fixed some bad markup in the POD
• Stuck distribution related tests under t/developer
• Added Perl::Critic tests under t/developer
• Added some documentation for Test::Class::MethodInfo since I was bored with people asking what it was for (it's internal - don't use it)
• Added a whole bunch of people to the acknowledgements section

0.11 [2005-02-19]

• A belated thank you added to some folk who send in RT bugs and whose name I missed off the acknowledgements section
• Tweaked link to XUL::Node in SEE ALSO
• Changed RT link so it went directly to Test::Class page
• An exception in a startup method now causes the rest of the tests in the current test object to be ignored, and no longer gives a bogus warning (reported by Emil Jansson - ta!)
• Added COMMUNITY section to POD

0.10 [2005-02-03]

• Really fixed the testclasses bug (doh!)
• Added :Tests attribute that acts like :Test but defaults to 'no_plan' if no test number is given.

0.09 [2005-01-30]

• Fixed bug with testclasses spotted by Corion's cpan smoker (see t/test_classes.t)
• Added links to tada to do list to TO DO section of POD
• Added links modules that use Test::Class to SEE ALSO section of POD (thanks to Terrence Brannon for suggesting this)

0.08 [2005-01-27]

• The undocumented behaviour of C<runtests> has been tweaked and documented. You can now run all loaded test classes by doing Test::Class->runtests
• Removed undocumented autorun method, and replaced with SKIP_CLASS. This allows you to prevent test classes being run by runtests.
• Removed undocumented class method run_all_tests. (thanks to David Wheeler & Ovid for helping define the above behaviour)

0.07 [2005-01-03]

• Removed Test::Class::Tutorial & Test::Class::BaseTest since they shouldn't have escaped into the wild quite yet. Oops.

0.06 [2004-09-06]

• Some cosmetic POD updates

0.06_8 [????-??-??]

• Made tests pass with Test::Simple 0.48
• New signature since old one about to be revoked

0.06_7 [2004-06-19]

• Added Module::Build support

0.06_6 [2004-03-28]

• Fixed bogus test failures under MSWin32

0.06_5 [2004-02-21]

• Cleaned up internals
• Having a single method be simultaniously a setup and teardown method no longer supported
• The undocumented add_method method, that you should not have been using anyway, disappears

0.06_4 [2004-02-13]

• Fixed bogus heading styles in POD
• Test names that default to $self->current_method now replace all "" characters with spaces to increase readability
• Documented default test name behaviour
• D'oh! Fixed MANIFEST so the distribution actually included the new tests for 0.063 and 0.06_2

0.06_3 [2004-02-04]

• more POD tweaks
• all tests now compile with warnings enabled
• test name now defaults to $self->current_method

0.06_2 [2004-01-30]

• now uses inside out objects so restriction on using -test and _test as hash keys has been removed
• tweaked POD of Test::Class
• you can now have spaces around test numbers, etc. (bug report and patch from David Wheeler)

0.06_1 [2004-01-23]

• removed examples directory from distribution, needs rewrite
• removed .svn directories from distribution (doh!)
• removed Test::Class::Tutorial from distribution - needs rewrite
• removed Test::Class::BaseTest - needs rethink
• cleaned up Test::Class POD a bit
• documented.t now uses Test::Pod::Coverage if available
• pod.t now uses Test::Pod if available
• private methods now called as functions to avoid problems with subclasses accidentally overriding

0.05 (not distributed on CPAN) [????-??-??]

• fixed MANIFEST and MANIFEST.SKIP
• now skips rest of tests in a test method after first failure due to an exception.

0.04 (not distributed on CPAN) [????-??-??]

• refactored mercylessly
• Added Test::Class::MethodInfo
• Added first draft of Test::Class::Tutorial. Feedback welcome.
• rearranged Test::Class POD (hopefully making it clearer!)
• dropped total_num_tests, teardown_methods, setup_methods and test_methods from public interface - they were implementation details that shouldn't have been public in first place. If you disagree let me know (with a rationale) and I'll probably add them back :-)
• fixed bug where runtests() could blow up if supplied with a non-Test::Class
• fixed bug where runtests returned whether all tests had passed, rather than whether all test run on test object passed
• bug with runtests showing duplicate header lines fixed (thanks to Michael for adding has_plan() to Test::Builder)
• FAIL_ALL now exits with the # tests failed (or 254 if more than 254 tests failed) to match behaviour of Test::Simple et al.
• An extra exception thrown after all the tests in a method have run now causes a failed test (to better match the behaviour of a die at the end of a normal test script).
• Changed diagnostic messages when exceptions occur to show method exception occurred in. Makes tracking failure easier.
• Added Test::Class::BaseTest - base class for creating a fixture and testing it's of the correct class.
• Diagnostic messages improved
• Plan correctly shown when setup/teardown method without any tests throws an exception
• TEST_VERBOSE now outputs a newline before the method name which makes reading verbose output easier.
• Added startup and shutdown methods after suggestion from Tony Bowden.
• Added run_all_classes and autorun - inspired by comments from Tony Bowden on running multiple Test::Classes easily
• Changed runtests so that it will run all of a classes autorunnable sub-classes if called as a class method with no arguments.

0.03 Thu Jun 20 [2002-06-20]

• fixed README
• fixed tests that broke now Test::Builder (quite rightly) can no longer display multiple plans in v0.15
• tidied up the code a little.

0.02 Sat Jun 15 [2002-06-15]

• released to perl-qa@perl.org

0.01 Fri May 10 22:36:52 2002

• original version; created by h2xs 1.21 with options -AX -n Test::Class