I used to hate counting tests. Now I only dislike it mildly. The benefit of catching oopses has thus far outweighted the minor nuisance of keeping the numbers current. It's easy enough to run a .t by hand, quickly note how many tests it expects, note the number of the last test, and then edit the file to adjust the number. Two of my coworkers have an emacs macro that does this automagically.

One side-benefit of having explicit counts is that you can periodically traverse the code base to count tests (using File::Find or File::Find::Rule, and a regex), then chart the number over time.

In reply to Re: How can I write Test::Finished? by dws
in thread How can I write Test::Finished? by samtregar

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