Why not skip tests based on the condition?

SKIP: {

        my $title = $sel->get_title() ;

        unless( $title =~ m/Broadband Connection \| Congratulations/' 
+) {
           skip "Parental control hijack page was seen after the route
+r was factory reset", 3 ;

           ## Since you are skipping tests you may not want to fail he
+re. 
           fail( "Parental control hijack page was seen after the rout
+er was factory reset" );
        }


        
        # 3 tests here. 
    }
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Take advantage of the fact that Test::More's ok, like, is, etc functions all return a boolean indicating the test's status.

The two possibilities you should look at are:

If when a test fails, you want to skip *all* the remaining tests in the file do:

like(...)
  or BAIL_OUT("No point in continuing");
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If you just wish to skip three tests and then continue with some more tests in the file:

SKIP: {
  like(...)
    or skip "The next three are irrelevant", 3;

  # the three tests to be skipped here.
  ok(...);
  ok(...);
  ok(...);
}

# will continue with this test
ok(...);
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Thank you both for the responses, they are very helpful. I had a feeling I was over complicating what the instructions were saying. Your examples have made it very clear how to use the SKIP functionality and I have got it working how I need.

Thanks again!

Just an additional note (many months after the event, and frankly to help me remember if I search for this again), BAIL_OUT will not work in the same way as SKIP - it will cause the test to fail.

If your uber condition is not something that should cause a test failure, you'll probably want to use tobyink's SKIP: arrangement or Ken's skip_all => $skip_reason below.

Worse, BAIL_OUT will cause subsequent test scripts to not be run! Though nobody seems to get that impression from reading the documentation, IME.

- tye        

G'day Doozer,

I'm not sure if this is applicable to your current situation, but if you can test for the skip condition up-front, you can do something like:

if ($skip_condition) {
    plan skip_all => $skip_reason;
}
else {
    plan tests => $number_of_tests;
}

# Planned tests here
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