The Perl modules for automating tests seem to be built for testing other modules, not programs.
First of all I'm not an expert wrt these issues, and I apologize in advance if I'm about to say something utterly stupid, but a possibility that springs to mind would be to write a wrapper sub for your program that would return the output of the latter as, say, returned by qx// and check that. 
if($opt_t){
   eval 'use Test::Simple tests => 3;';
   ok(double(2) == 4);
   ok(double(-3) == -6);
   ok(double(0) == 0);
   exit;
}

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So you want to run tests dependently from a cmd line switch. I don't think this is a common practice, but I don't see anything patently wrong with it. Though, incidentally, I'd try to avoid string eval and resort to a require, if possibly slightly more verbose...

In reply to Re: Testing programs by blazar
in thread Testing programs by lhoward

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