33.4. TAP Tests
Various tests, particularly the client program tests
under
src/bin
, use the Perl TAP tools and are run
using the Perl testing program
prove
. You can pass
command-line options to
prove
by setting
the
make
variable
PROVE_FLAGS
, for example:
make -C src/bin check PROVE_FLAGS='--timer'
See the manual page of
prove
for more information.
The
make
variable
PROVE_TESTS
can be used to define a whitespace-separated list of paths relative
to the
Makefile
invoking
prove
to run the specified subset of tests instead of the default
t/*.pl
. For example:
make check PROVE_TESTS='t/001_test1.pl t/003_test3.pl'
The TAP tests require the Perl module
IPC::Run
.
This module is available from CPAN or an operating system package.
They also require
PostgreSQL
to be
configured with the option
--enable-tap-tests
.