NAME
    CPAN::Testers - QA of CPAN distributions via cross-platform testing

SYNOPSIS
    With the explosive growth and increased interest in the CPAN Testers, it
    was felt useful to create this namespace placeholder to house the newly
    architected next-generation CPAN Testers stack, which is now in
    development. This namespace also provides for the consolidation of
    related work under one unified and easily identifiable umbrella.
    Co-maint permissions in this namespace are freely granted to anyone
    working on any area of the CPAN Testers infrastructure.

DESCRIPTION
    Started in 1998 by Graham Barr and Chris Nandor, the CPAN Testers exist
    to provide quality assurance of CPAN distributions via cross-platform
    testing with many versions of perl. Some of our goals include the
    increase of portability of CPAN distributions and to provide authors
    with helpful feedback.

    Nowadays, it's quite effortless to get involved--even casually--with
    mature support for CPAN Testing with both CPAN and CPANPLUS. Testing
    methods ranging from manual to automatic are available.

    There are many distributions that comprise the CPAN Testers stack
    (please forgive my poor artwork). The current architecture is as
    follows:

                       [POE-Component-CPAN-YACSmoke]
                                    |
    [cpantest]                      |
        \                    [CPAN-YACSmoke]
         \                     (CPANPLUS)
          \                       /
           \   [CPAN-Reporter]   /
            \      (CPAN)       /
             \       |         /
              \      |        /
               [Test-Reporter]

    Test::Reporter is delivered test report data by one of its upstream
    constituents and then invokes a transport to submit the test report to
    the cpan-testers@perl.org mailing list. The mailing list is the current
    de facto data store for the test reports. From there, web-based
    presentation of the reports are provided courtesy of the
    CPAN-WWW-Testers and CPAN-WWW-Testers-Generator distributions, and
    web-based statistics are provided courtesy of cpanstats
    (http://perl.grango.org/cpanstats-0.29.tar.gz).

    Improvements to this architecture are currently in discussion. Plans for
    abstracting discrete functionality (parsing, grading, transports, etc.)
    into separate distributions within this namespace are in progress.
    Additionally, we are working on an HTTP transport for the submission of
    test reports at the request of the perl.org folks, Adam Kennedy, and
    others.

    For more information on the CPAN Testers please visit the below links:

    * <http://cpantesters.perl.org/>
        CPAN Testers reports

    * <http://perl.grango.org/>
        CPAN Testers statistics

    * <http://cpantest.grango.org/>
        The CPAN Testers Wiki

    * <http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=cpan-testers>
        The cpan-testers mailing list

    * <http://cpantest.grango.org/cpantester/>
        A presentation entitled "How to be a CPAN Tester" created by Barbie
        and David Golden

    * <http://use.perl.org/articles/06/11/08/1256207.shtml>
        A short tutorial entitled "Become a CPAN Tester with CPAN::Reporter"
        created by David Golden

    * <http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/30/cpants.html>
        An article entitled "Becoming a CPAN Tester with CPANPLUS" created
        by Audrey Tang

CAVEATS
    This is the first draft of this document. Undoubtedly, there may be
    various bits that need some adjustments. Feedback is most welcome.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2007 Adam J. Foxson and the CPAN Testers. All rights
    reserved.

LICENSE
    This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
    * <http://cpants.perl.org/>
        CPANTS: The CPAN Testing Service. A related project aimed at
        providing some sort of quality measure (called "Kwalitee") and lots
        of metadata for all distributions on CPAN

    * <http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl-qa>
        Special thanks to the members of the perl-qa mailing list for
        providing valuable insights and suggestions over the years

AUTHOR
    Adam J. Foxson <afoxson@pobox.com>, having been involved with the CPAN
    Testers for over half a decade, is the principal author of
    Test::Reporter.