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Test Anything Protocol

TAP, the Test Anything Protocol, is a simple text-based interface between testing modules in a test harness. TAP started life as part of the test harness for Perl but now has implementations in C, C++, Python, PHP, Perl, Java, JavaScript, and others.

Here's what a TAP test stream looks like:

1..4
ok 1 - Input file opened
not ok 2 - First line of the input valid
ok 3 - Read the rest of the file
not ok 4 - Summarized correctly # TODO Not written yet

Testing with TAP

• Testing with TAP - How to run TAP based tests in your language of choice

TAP Development

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TAP Proposals - What next?

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• TAP Producers - Testing tools that generate TAP output
• TAP Consumers - Test harnesses that read TAP
• TAP Philosophy - The Tao of TAP
• TAP History - The story of TAP

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TAP Critique - Design infelicities

YAMLish - TAP's embedded YAML dialect

Things missing from TAP

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Specifications

• TAP specification
• TAP version 13 specification

External Resources

• Wikipedia article on TAP
• The TAP subreddit

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Mailing Lists

• TAP-L - For discussion of the Test Anything Protocol
• TAPX-DEV - For developers of TAP::Parser and other interested parties. Perl specific.

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