NAME

Fennec::Collector - Funnel results from child to parent

DESCRIPTION

The collector is responsible for 2 jobs: 1) In the parent process it is responsible for gathering all test results from the child processes. 2) In the child processes it is responsible for sending results to the parent process.

METHODS SUBCLASSES MUST OVERRIDE

$bool = ok( $bool, $description )

Fennec sometimes needs to report the result of an internal check. These checks will pass a boolean true/false value and a description.

diag( $msg )

Fennec uses this to report internal diagnostics messages

end_pid

Called just before a child process exits.

collect

Used by the parent process at an interval to get results from children and display them.

METHODS SUBCLASSES MAY OVERRIDE

new

Builds the object from params, then calls init.

init

Called by new

finish

Called at the very end of "done_testing()" no tests should be reported after this.

METHODS SUBCLASSES MUST BE AWARE OF

test_count

Holds the test count so far.

test_failed

Holds the number of tests failed so far.

inc_test_count

Used to add 1 to the number of tests.

inc_test_failed

Used to add 1 to the number of failed tests.

AUTHORS

Chad Granum exodist7@gmail.com

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2013 Chad Granum

Fennec is free software; Standard perl license (GPL and Artistic).

Fennec is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the license for more details.