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If you could start all over, back in 1994 (Score:2)
I still have in my mind some sort of graphical test tool for Perl, but I don't know what I quite want it to do and what new features, techniques, and consequences would come out of it.
Test::Aggregate certainly comes out of the consequences of mainstream Perl testing and the framework that most everyone uses. It's what works right now: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are".
Without any goal or intention of actually implementing something new, if you started all over with whatever test harness you wanted, but would you want it to do and how would you like it to work?
For instance, I'd love to have something where I can cherry pick tests. Since we test like we do, I can't do that. It's not a tool issue because I've written all those .t files to fit the current tools and modules.
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Off the top of my head, there are a few things I would want. First, I'd want tests installed with modules. That would allow us to test our current installation, not just the module we intend to install.
Second, I'd want a way to track tests over time. That would be difficult and I'm not sure how we would do it, but basically, if test some-cpan-module/t/foo.t fails in a particular way that we can live with and it fails in the same way after we upgrade other modules, we can at least have a controlled enviro