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From 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 and others.

Here's what a TAP test stream looks like

   TAP version 13
   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

Contents 1 Starting Points 1.1 Testing with TAP 1.2 TAP Development 1.3 TAP Standardization 1.4 Other Test Protocols 1.5 Help 2 External Resources 3 Mailing Lists

[edit] Starting Points

[edit] Testing with TAP

• Testing with TAP - How to run TAP based tests in your language of choice
• TAP::Parser Cookbook - Cooking with TAP
• TAP Users - Projects using TAP

[edit] TAP Development

• TAP Producers - Testing tools that generate TAP output
• TAP Consumers - Test harnesses that read TAP
• TAP Proposals - What next?
• TAP Philosophy - The Tao of TAP
• TAP History - The story of TAP
• TAP Critique - Design infelicities
• YAMLish - TAP's embedded YAML dialect
• Things missing from TAP

[edit] TAP Standardization

• TAP at IETF: Notes - Initial work on getting TAP through the IETF standards process
• TAP at IETF: Draft Standard - A draft (should that be pre-draft) of the IETF TAP standard

[edit] Other Test Protocols

• TET - the Test Environment Toolkit

[edit] Help

• FAQ

[edit] External Resources

• TAP specification
• TAP version 13 specification
• essays
• Wikipedia article on TAP

[edit] Mailing Lists

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