# Test-WWW-Mechanize
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Test::WWW::Mechanize is a subclass of the Perl module WWW::Mechanize
that incorporates features for web application testing. For example:
use Test::WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = Test::WWW::Mechanize->new;
$mech->get_ok( $page );
$mech->base_is( 'http://petdance.com/', 'Proper ' );
$mech->title_is( 'Invoice Status', "Make sure we're on the invoice page" );
$mech->text_contains( 'Andy Lester', 'My name somewhere' );
$mech->content_like( qr/(cpan|perl)\.org/, 'Link to perl.org or CPAN' );
$mech->header_is( 'Cache-Control', 'private', 'Caching is turned off' );
$mech->lacks_header_ok( 'X-Foo', 'Does not have the X-Foo header' );
This is equivalent to:
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new;
$mech->get( $page );
ok( $mech->success );
is( $mech->base, 'http://petdance.com', 'Proper ' );
is( $mech->title, 'Invoice Status', "Make sure we're on the invoice page" );
ok( index( $mech->content( format => 'text' ), 'Andy Lester' ) >= 0, 'My name somewhere' );
like( $mech->content, qr/(cpan|perl)\.org/, 'Link to perl.org or CPAN' );
is( $mech->response->header( 'Cache-Control' ), 'private', 'Caching is turned off' );
ok( !defined $mech->response->header( 'X-Foo' ), 'Does not have the X-Foo header' );
but has nicer diagnostics if they fail.
Test::WWW::Mechanize also has functionality to automatically validate every page it goes to.
use Test::WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = Test::WWW::Mechanize->new( autotidy => 1 );
$mech->get_ok( $url );
which can give errors like this:
not ok 1 - GET $url
# Failed test '$url'
# at foo.pl line 7.
# HTML::Tidy5 messages for $url
# (11:1) Warning: missing before
# (7:18) Warning: