Btukfyl

I have a Makefile.PL using MakeMaker for my perl module like this :

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use warnings FATAL => 'all';



use 5.008;



use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;



WriteMakefile

(

    NAME          => 'MyModule',

    AUTHOR        => 'Subu',

    LICENSE       => 'perl',

    PREREQ_PM     => {

        'File::Basename' => '0',

    },

    TEST_REQUIRES => {

        'Test::More'       => '0.47',

        'Test::MockModule' => 'v0.170.0',

        'Test::MockObject' => '1.20180705',

        'Devel::Cover'     => '1.31',

        'Test::File'       => '1.443'

    },

    BUILD_REQUIRES => {

        'Log::Log4perl'  => '1.49',

        'JSON::Parse'    => '0.55',

        'Time::Piece'    => '1.33',

        'Text::CSV'      => '1.97'

    },

    EXE_FILES => [

        'src/main/perl/MyModule/main.pl'

    ],



    test => {TESTS => 'src/test/perl/MyModule/*/*.t 

src/test/perl/MyModule/*/*/*.t'}



);

I'm able to run tests using

perl Makefile.PL

make 

make test

However, I would like to have the output formatted using the TAP::Harness::Junit. How do I specify that in the makefile ?

I know I can run the tests with prove

prove --formatter TAP::Formatter::JUnit *.t

But I wanted to know if there is a way I can plug that into my makefile.

The Makefile.PL is primarily intended to make your modules cpan-installable. For example, make test would be run during module installation to verify that it works correctly on the target system. For that purpose, changing the formatter (and adding an extra dependency) is not helpful.

The Makefile.PL is not necessarily the place for your personal development workflow or for any Continuous Integration scripts. E.g. if you want to generate JUnit test reports on a Jenkins server, you might want to put the prove --formatter TAP::Formatter::JUnit *.t command into a Jenkinsfile. If you prefer writing Makefiles, you could use a separate Makefile for your personal development scipts, though you'd have to use make -f MyMakefile test to invoke it.