I've uploaded the new Test::Harness, version 2.32.

Test::Harness now comes with a command-line utility called prove that runs tests against the harness. Why have a separate utility? What's wrong with "make test"?

prove has a number of advantages over make test when doing development.

• prove is designed as a development tool
  
Perl users typically run the test harness through a makefile via make test. That's fine for module distributions, but it's suboptimal for a test/code/debug development cycle.
• prove is granular
  
prove lets your run against only the files you want to check. Running prove t/live/ t/master.t checks every *.t in t/live, plus t/master.t.
• prove has an easy verbose mode
  
To get full test program output from make test, you must set HARNESS_VERBOSE in the environment. prove has a -v option.
• prove can run under taint mode
  
prove's -T runs your tests under perl -T.
• prove can shuffle tests
  
You can use prove's --shuffle option to try to excite problems that don't show up when tests are run in the same order every time.
• Not everything is a module
  
More and more users are using Perl's testing tools outside the context of a module distribution, and may not even use a makefile at all.

I welcome your comments and suggestions about prove, and I hope you find it as useful as I have over the past couple years of development.

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