How to trigger extended testing?

[tomk3003]

I am currently triggering extended tests for my module Spreadsheet::Compare with an environment variable.

If I understand this correctly, this is only possible with the testing_context for the cpan-test workflow with a non windows os.
I would be very interested in having that for windows and for cpan-coverage as well, since running the extended tests will increase the coverage noticeable.

And another thing: the module is installed with cpanm --no-test. Will running the tests with make test consider the TEST_REQUIRES settings in Makefile.PL?

As an afterthought, I just could make the extended tests the default if they are running under github actions. There should be a default way to detect that.

[davorg]

If I understand this correctly, this is only possible with the testing_context for the cpan-test workflow with a non windows os.

Yes. This pull request was submitted by someone with no interest in Windows :-/

I guess the code that sets the environment variables could also be written for Windows using Powershell. But I don't know enough Powershell to have confidence in any solution I might write. Patches welcome :-)

[tomk3003]

Since the testing context is only used after having Perl already available, why not use Perl for this?
You have to be a little careful with quote characters, but I think this should be doable.
I'll try that and provide a PR if it should work. Powershell should be avoided wherever possible ;-)

[tomk3003]

Not yet PR ready, but works in principle: cpan-test-perl.yml
I changed the testing context to a JSON object for a more general approach to be able to set arbitrary environment variables.
There is cpan-coverage-perl.yml too, which has the same input and handling applied.

[tomk3003]

I looked through the things shogo82148 provides with Action::Core, and added automatic detection of available perl versions.
It also handles the variable exports a bit cleaner, so I used it for the testing context, too.