in reply to Timeout on prove

Sorry dunno about options in prove ...

... but if you are calling prove automatically you should be able to script a wrapper¹ with a timeout.

The advantage would be that this should also be a good place to hard-code corporate wide² policies. :)

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

footnotes

¹) like "merge_prove.pl" :)

²) and project specific