I'm relatively new to developing perl modules with Test::Harness type tests, and I feel like I'm missing something.

Basically, I can write Test::Harness tests, but they only tell me good v. bad with very little detail. I like to have a lot of details while I'm actually developing a module. As a consequence, I'm writing two different test scripts (or batches of scripts). One that I use while I'm developing and one that is for packaging with the module and running in Test::Harness.

Is there a way to write Test::Harness tests that can give me lots of details when I'm running them by hand, yet work as expected when run by "make test"?

I'll try and clarify a bit what I mean by more detail. I might want to "print ref($thing)" from time to time. I might want to "print $total_score". Sure, I could "warn $total_score", but that would make it look terrible when testing with "make test". I know there's "make install TEST_VERBOSE=1", which is better, but still not good enough. I'd be happy to "special_print( ref($thing) );" rather than "print ref($thing)", if that's what it takes.

Thanks!
--Pileofrogs

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