Test2::Manual::Tooling(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation 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 AUTHORS Chad Granum COPYRIGHT Copyright 2018 Chad Granum . 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/ perl v5.38.2 2024-05-12 Test2::Manual::Tooling(3)