gmax asked if there was a "ready-to-use idiom to make a test.pl script by assembling several small ones together?"

You can look at the documentation for Test::Harness. This module will allow you to run tests from several different sources and will return results based upon their output to STDOUT. Here's a script from the docs to have Test::Harness test itself, using all test scripts in the "t" directory.

  $ cd ~/src/devel/Test-Harness
  $ perl -Mblib -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose);
    $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t
  Using /home/schwern/src/devel/Test-Harness/blib
  t/base..............ok
  t/nonumbers.........ok
  t/ok................ok
  t/test-harness......ok
  All tests successful.
  Files=4, Tests=24, 2 wallclock secs ( 0.61 cusr + 0.41 csys = 1.02 C
+PU)
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Cheers,
Ovid

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