The CPAN Testers Wiki

This wiki is the online reference for everything related to CPAN Testing. HowTos, Tutorials, FAQs and Notes are all here to help both beginners and experienced CPAN testers.

If there is any aspect of CPAN Testing missing from this site you are encourage to update it. The wiki is backed up, so don't worry about getting it wrong. Either we can edit the page or restore the content.

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Contents

Introduction

• Prologue
• Why Is Testing Important?
• Notes For CPAN Authors

CPAN Testers

• WhatIsCPANTesters
• History
• Reports and Grades
• GettingStarted
• FollowUp

CPAN + CPAN-Reporter

• CPAN-Reporter Installation
• CPAN-Reporter Configuration
• CPAN-Reporter Testing
• CPAN-Reporter Hints and Tips

CPANPLUS/CPAN-YACSmoke

• YACSmokeInstall
• YACSmokeConfiguration
• YACSmokeTesting

CPAN::Reporter::Smoker

• CPAN-Reporter-Smoker - Quick Guide
• CPAN-Reporter-Smoker - Detailed Guide

Distributed Testing

• YACSmokePOE

Appendices

• Websites
• MailingLists
• IRC
• PITA
• TalkSlides
• Roadmap

Additional Pages

Notes

• AdminRequests
• SandBox

Retired Pages

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