AUTOPROVE(1)

NAME
autoprove - automatically prove your application with tests

SYNOPSIS
Simply run this command and leave it in the foreground:

  $ autoprove

You may add a few 'prove' options:

  $ autoprove --shuffle --fork

And/or specify only the test programs that you want to run automatically:

  $ autoprove t/mytest.t t/another.t

DESCRIPTION
This program is a CLI front-end to the module Test::Continuous. It is basically the equivalent of running:

    perl -MTest::Continuous -e Test::Continuous::runtests

But simpler.

Test results are displayed on terminal. If Log::Dispatch::DesktopNotification is installed, test results will also be notified through that channel. If running on Mac, it'll be Growl, if it's on Linux desktop, it's done with Log::Dispatch::Gtk2::Notify.

"Test::Continuous" will auto detect the subset of tests to run. For example, say you have two test files "feature-foo.t" and "feature-bar.t" which test, and use, your module "Feature::Foo" and "Feature::Bar" respectively. "Test::Continuous" can catch this static dependency and only run "feature-foo.t" when "Feature::Foo" is modified, "feature-bar.t" will only be run if "Feature::Bar" is modified.

If a ".t" file is modified, only that test file will be run.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
Test::Continuous requires no configuration files.

Your ".proverc" is NOT loaded, even though it's based on App::Prove.

The "autoprove" script parses arguments on the command line or passed via the environment variable "AUTOPROVE_OPTS". All autoprove options are prefixed with "--autoprove-" (in both the command line and the environmental variable).

Valid options:

"--autoprove-no-skip-initial" (Default)
"--autoprove-skip-initial"
    These options allow control over whether the initial tests are run when autoprove is first started. By default, autoprove will run all tests when executed, and then wait for changes.

    Using "--autoprove-skip-initial" skips the initial tests and goes straight to watching for changes to files. Generally, you should run all tests, in case something changed while "Test::Continuous" was not running. The "--autoprove-no-skip-initial" is provided so that you can override an environmental variable "AUTOPROVE_OPTS" that includes "--autoprove-skip-initial" via the command line, by passing autoprove the "--autoprove-no-skip-initial" option.

AUTHOR
Kang-min Liu "<gugod@gugod.org>"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2008,2009 Kang-min Liu "<gugod@gugod.org>".

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

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