<s>
Test::More	B-Library
is	O
a	O
unit	O
testing	O
module	O
for	O
Perl	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Created	O
and	O
maintained	O
by	O
Michael	O
G	O
Schwern	O
with	O
help	O
from	O
Barrie	O
Slaymaker	O
,	O
Tony	O
Bowden	O
,	O
chromatic	O
,	O
Fergal	O
Daly	O
and	O
perl-qa	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Test::More	B-Library
is	O
the	O
most	O
popular	O
Perl	B-Language
testing	O
module	O
,	O
as	O
of	O
this	O
2010	O
about	O
80%	O
of	O
all	O
CPAN	B-Language
distributions	O
made	O
use	O
of	O
it	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Introduced	O
in	O
2001	O
to	O
replace	O
Test.pm,	O
Test::More	B-Library
simplified	O
the	O
culture	O
of	O
testing	O
in	O
Perl	B-Language
leading	O
to	O
a	O
proliferation	O
of	O
new	O
testing	O
modules	O
and	O
a	O
strongly	O
test	O
driven	O
community	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
January	O
–	O
March	O
2014	O
Michael	O
Schwern	O
transferred	O
ownership	O
of	O
Test::More	B-Library
and	O
related	O
modules	O
to	O
Chad	O
'	O
Exodist	O
 '	O
Granum	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
new	O
version	O
includes	O
major	O
API	B-General_Concept
updates	O
and	O
introduced	O
several	O
enhanced	O
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Test::More	B-Library
is	O
not	O
a	O
framework	O
but	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
conjunction	O
with	O
other	O
testing	O
libraries	O
via	O
a	O
shared	O
Test::Builder	O
object	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
result	O
,	O
Test::More	B-Library
provides	O
the	O
baseline	O
testing	O
functions	O
leaving	O
other	O
libraries	O
to	O
implement	O
more	O
specific	O
and	O
sophisticated	O
functionality	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Test::More	B-Library
is	O
not	O
a	O
complete	O
testing	O
framework	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Rather	O
,	O
test	O
programs	O
written	O
with	O
Test::More	B-Library
output	O
their	O
results	O
as	O
TAP	O
which	O
can	O
then	O
either	O
be	O
interpreted	O
by	O
a	O
human	O
,	O
or	O
more	O
usually	O
run	O
through	O
a	O
TAP	O
parser	O
such	O
as	O
Test::Harness	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
this	O
separation	O
between	O
test	O
program	O
and	O
test	O
result	O
interpreter	O
via	O
a	O
common	O
protocol	O
which	O
allows	O
Perl	B-Language
programmers	O
to	O
develop	O
so	O
many	O
different	O
testing	O
modules	O
and	O
use	O
them	O
in	O
combination	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Among	O
its	O
features	O
are	O
more	O
comprehensive	O
error	B-Error_Name
messages	I-Error_Name
,	O
functions	O
to	O
test	O
regular	B-Language
expressions	I-Language
,	O
functions	O
to	O
test	O
objects	O
,	O
and	O
functions	O
to	O
test	O
complex	O
data	O
structures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
module	O
intercepts	O
standard	O
output	O
from	O
the	O
Perl	B-Language
script	O
to	O
execute	O
the	O
tests	O
.	O
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