I do not think that there should be tests for level advancments. One of the beauties of the Perl Monks XP system (and Perl itself) is that nobody is forced to do things they don't like. People can focus on the area of Perl that interests them, or the area required for their job. Having a mandatory test would be restrictive because it would force people into areas that they had no use for.

-Ben Jacobs (dooberwah)
"one thing i can tell you is you got to be free"