NAME Module::EnforceLoad - Make sure your modules load their deps in preload environments. DESCRIPTION Unit tests are good. Unit tests can also be slow. Unit tests run faster if you preload all your modules and then fork for each test. This scenario will fail to catch when you forget to load a dependancy as the preload will satisfy it. This can lead to errors you find in production instead of tests. This module helps with the problem in the last paragraph. You load this module FIRST then load your preloads, then call "enforce()". From that point on the code will die if you use a sub defined in one of your preloads, unless something uses "use" or "require" to try to load the module after you call "enforce()". SYNOPSIS package My::Preloader; use Module::EnforceLoad; # Preloads use Moose; use Scalar::Util; use Data::Dumper; enforce(); do ''; # Will die, despite being preloaded # (we use eval to turn it into a warning for this example) eval { print Data::Dumper::Dumper('foo'); 1 } or warn $@; require Data::Dumper; # Now this will work fine. print Data::Dumper::Dumper('foo'); HOW IT WORKS This module replaces "CORE::GLOBAL::require" at which point anything that is loaded via "use" or "require" will be added to a dependancy tree structure. Once you run "enforce()" it will walk the symbol table and replace all defined subs with wrapper that call the original. This will also start recording a list of modules that get required AFTER "enforce()". If you call any function without first loading the module it was defined in, an exception is thrown. Because of the tree initially built we can also track indirect loading. SOURCE The source code repository for Test2 can be found at MAINTAINERS Chad Granum AUTHORS Chad Granum COPYRIGHT Copyright 2016 Chad Granum . This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See