NAME
    Test::Exception - Test exception based code

SYNOPSIS
      use Test::More tests => 5;
      use Test::Exception;

      # or if you don't need Test::More

      use Test::Exception tests => 5;

      # then...

      # Check that something died
      dies_ok {$foo->method1} 'expecting to die';

      # Check that something did not die
      lives_ok {$foo->method2} 'expecting to live';

      # Check that the stringified exception matches given regex
      throws_ok {$foo->method3} qr/division by zero/, 'zero caught okay';

      # Check an exception of the given class (or subclass) is thrown
      throws_ok {$foo->method4} 'Error::Simple', 'simple error thrown';

      # Check that a test runs without an exception
      lives_and {is $foo->method, 42} 'method is 42';

DESCRIPTION
    This module provides a few convenience methods for testing exception
    based code. It is built with Test::Builder and plays happily with
    Test::More and friends.

    If you are not already familiar with Test::More now would be the time to
    go take a look.

    You can specify the test plan when you "use Test::Exception" in the same
    way as "use Test::More". See Test::More for details.

    dies_ok
        Checks that a piece of code dies, rather than returning normally.
        For example:

            sub div {
                my ($a, $b) = @_;
                return( $a / $b );
            };

            dies_ok { div(1, 0) } 'divide by zero detected';

        A true value is returned if the test succeeds, false otherwise. On
        exit $@ is guaranteed to be the cause of death (if any).

        The test name is optional, but recommended.

    lives_ok
        Checks that a piece of code exits normally, and doesn't die. For
        example:

            sub read_file {
                my $file = shift;
                local $/ = undef;
                open(FILE, $file) or die "open failed ($!)\n";
                $file = <FILE>;
                close(FILE);
                return($file);
            };

            my $file;
            lives_ok { $file = read_file('test.txt') } 'file read';

        Should a lives_ok() test fail it produces appropriate diagnostic
        messages. For example:

            not ok 1 - file read
            #     Failed test (test.t at line 15)
            # died: open failed (No such file or directory)

        A true value is returned if the test succeeds, false otherwise. On
        exit $@ is guaranteed to be the cause of death (if any).

        The test name is optional, but recommended.

    throws_ok
        Tests to see that a specific exception is thrown. throws_ok() has
        two forms:

          throws_ok BLOCK REGEX, TEST_NAME
          throws_ok BLOCK CLASS, TEST_NAME

        In the first form the test passes if the stringified exception
        matches the give regular expression. For example:

            throws_ok { 
                read_file('test.txt') 
            } qr/No such file/, 'no file';

        If your perl does not support "qr//" you can also pass a regex-like
        string, for example:

            throws_ok { 
                read_file('/etc/kcpassword') 
            } '/Permission denied/', 'no permissions';

        The second form of throws_ok() test passes if the exception is of
        the same class as the one supplied, or a subclass of that class. For
        example:

            throws_ok {$foo->bar} "Error::Simple", 'simple error';

        Will only pass if the "bar" method throws an Error::Simple
        exception, or a subclass of an Error::Simple exception.

        You can get the same effect by passing an instance of the exception
        you want to look for. The following is equivalent to the previous
        example:

            my $SIMPLE = Error::Simple->new();
            throws_ok {$foo->bar} $SIMPLE, 'simple error';

        Should a throws_ok() test fail it produces appropriate diagnostic
        messages. For example:

            not ok 3 - simple error
            #     Failed test (test.t at line 48)
            # expecting: Error::Simple exception
            # found: normal exit

        A true value is returned if the test succeeds, false otherwise. On
        exit $@ is guaranteed to be the cause of death (if any).

        The test name is optional. If no test name is given a description of
        the exception being checked for is used.

    lives_and
        Run a test that may throw an exception. For example, instead of
        doing:

            my $file;
            lives_ok { $file = read_file('answer.txt') } 'read_file worked';
            is $file, "42\n", 'answer was 42';

        You can use lives_and() like this:

            lives_and { is read_file('answer.txt'), "42\n" } 'answer is 42';

        Which is the same as doing

            is read_file('answer.txt'), "42\n", 'answer is 42';

        unless "read_file('answer.txt')" dies, in which case you get the
        same kind of error as lives_ok()

            not ok 1 - answer is 42
            #     Failed test (test.t at line 15)
            # died: open failed (No such file or directory)

        A true value is returned if the test succeeds, false otherwise. On
        exit $@ is guaranteed to be the cause of death (if any).

        The test name is optional, but recommended.

BUGS
    None known at the time of writing.

    If you find any please let me know by e-mail, or report the problem with
    <http://rt.cpan.org/>.

TO DO
    Nothing at the time of writing.

    If you think this module should do something that it doesn't do at the
    moment please let me know.

ACKNOWLEGEMENTS
    Thanks to chromatic and Michael G Schwern for the excellent
    Test::Builder, without which this module wouldn't be possible.

    Thanks to Michael G Schwern, Mark Fowler, Janek Schleicher, chromatic,
    Mark Fowler, Peter Scott, Aristotle and Andy Lester for suggestions, bug
    reports and patches.

AUTHOR
    Adrian Howard <adrianh@quietstars.com>

    If you can spare the time, please drop me a line if you find this module
    useful.

SEE ALSO
    Test::Builder
        Support module for building test libraries.

    Test::Simple & Test::More
        Basic utilities for writing tests.

    Test::Warn & Test::NoWarnings
        Modules to help test warnings.

    <http://qa.perl.org/test-modules.html>
        Overview of some of the many testing modules available on CPAN.

LICENCE
    Copyright 2002-2004 Adrian Howard, All Rights Reserved.

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