12.1.4.4 Links and external resources on TAP

Here are some links to more extensive official or third-party documentation and resources about the TAP protocol and related tools and libraries.

• ‘Test::Harness::TAP’, the (mostly) official documentation about the TAP format and protocol.
• prove, the most famous command-line TAP test driver, included in the distribution of perl and ‘Test::Harness’.
• The TAP wiki.
• A “gentle introduction” to testing for perl coders: ‘Test::Tutorial’.
• ‘Test::Simple’ and ‘Test::More’, the standard perl testing libraries, which are based on TAP.
• C TAP Harness, a C-based project implementing both a TAP producer and a TAP consumer.
• tap4j, a Java-based project implementing both a TAP producer and a TAP consumer.