-This is the perl test library. To run most of the tests, just type './TEST'
-(which will not run the tests residing in lib/ or ext/. In order to run
-all of the tests type 'make test' from the build direcotory above t/).
+This is the perl test library. To run the test suite, just type './TEST'
+or 'make test' from the build directory above t/. See also the section
+"Special Make Test Targets" in pod/perlhack.pod to learn about other
+specific test commands.
To add new tests, just look at the current tests and do likewise.
+The library t/test.pl provides some utility functions that you can use
+in most tests, except in the most basic ones.
If a test fails, run it by itself to see if it prints any informative
diagnostics. If not, modify the test to print informative diagnostics.
If you know that Perl is basically working but expect that some tests
will fail, you may want to use Test::Harness thusly:
cd t
- ./perl -I../lib harness
+ ./perl harness
This method pinpoints failed tests automatically.
If you come up with new tests, please send them to perlbug@perl.org.
extensions to have been built. TEST will abort if any tests in the
t/base/ directory fail.
-Tests in the t/comp/, t/cmd/, t/run/, t/io/, and t/op/ directories should
-also be runnable by miniperl and not require Config.pm, but failures
-to comply will not cause TEST to abort like for t/base/.
+Tests in the t/comp/, t/cmd/, t/run/, t/io/, t/op/ and t/uni/ directories
+should also be runnable by miniperl and not require Config.pm, but
+failures to comply will not cause TEST to abort like for t/base/.
+
+Tests in t/perf/ are designed to test performance and optimisations,
+and also contain additional tools and files designed to run outside
+of the test suite
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