Test2::Manual::Tooling(3)

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

global API
    Test2::API is the global API. This is primarily used by plugins that provide global behavior.

In hubs
    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/.

MAINTAINERS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

AUTHORS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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/