sub _open_testhandles {
    my $self = shift;

    return if $self->{Opened_Testhandles};

    # We dup STDOUT and STDERR so people can change them in their
    # test suites while still getting normal test output.
    open( $Testout, ">&STDOUT" ) or die "Can't dup STDOUT:  $!";
    open( $Testerr, ">&STDERR" ) or die "Can't dup STDERR:  $!";

    $self->_copy_io_layers( \*STDOUT, $Testout );
    $self->_copy_io_layers( \*STDERR, $Testerr );

    $self->{Opened_Testhandles} = 1;

    return;
}