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That's why modules such as Test::More allow you to name your tests - it makes finding the offending test much easier. Of course this won't help you with old-style, handmade or bad test suites, but test names are just as variable names - it's up to the author to chose sensible names.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web

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Re: Re: Now I know what is aggravating about testing:
by princepawn (Parson) on Nov 08, 2003 at 11:19 UTC

    Also, it looks like line numbers are given with (newer versions of?)Test.pm 

    t/file..............ok 15/38# Failed test 16 in t/file.t at line 135  
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t/file..............ok 19/38# Failed test 20 in t/file.t at line 139  
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t/file..............ok 21/38# Failed test 22 in t/file.t at line 141  
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t/file..............NOK 22could not append: Permission denied at t/fil
+e.t line 146.

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