Test2::Manual::Tooling - Manual page for tool authors.

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

Copyright 2018 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>. 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 v5.40.1 2025-07-03 Test2::Manual::Tooling(3perl)

This section covers writing new tools, plugins, and other Test2 components.

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

Test2::Manual::Tooling - Manual page for tool authors.

TAKINGACTIONWHENANEWTOOLSTARTS Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::ToolStarts - How to add behaviors that occur when a tool starts work. TAKINGACTIONAFTERATOOLISDONE Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::ToolCompletes - How to add behaviors that occur when a tool completes work. TAKINGACTIONATTHEENDOFTESTING Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::TestingDone - How to add behaviors that occur when testing is complete (IE done_testing, or end of test). TAKINGACTIONJUSTBEFOREEXIT Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::TestExit - How to safely add pre-exit behaviors.

Test2::Manual - Primary index of the manual.

The source code repository for Test2-Manual can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.

FIRSTTOOL Test2::Manual::Tooling::FirstTool - Introduction to writing tools by cloning ok(). MOVINGFROMTest::Builder Test2::Manual::Tooling::TestBuilder - This section maps Test::Builder methods to Test2 concepts. NESTINGTOOLS Test2::Manual::Tooling::Nesting - How to call other tools from your tool. TOOLSWITHSUBTESTS Test2::Manual::Tooling::Subtest - How write tools that make use of subtests. TESTINGYOURTESTTOOLS Test2::Manual::Tooling::Testing - How to write tests for your test tools.

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.

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Formatter - How to write a custom formatter, in our case a JSONL formatter.