Thank you for the answers.

I've had a look at Test::Inline and I have some things unclear. I started with this module (For_test.pm): 

package For_test;

use strict;

sub two { return 2; }
sub three { return 4; }

=begin testing

ok(two() == 2);
ok(three() == 3);

=end testing
=cut
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I created inline2test.conf: 

input=.
output=t
verbose=1

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The I run perl t/for_test.t which tells me it can't find &main::two. It only helps if I manually add use For_test; to the test script and qualify the testing commands to look like 

ok(For_test::two() == 2);
ok(For_test::three() == 3);

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This must surely be wrong - I don't think I should touch the generated test scripts. Also, if I got to where I actually wanted -- to testing *.pl files, not modules, I'd have a hard time supplying the needed use statement.

What caught my eye was the Open3 module. It looks like it could do what I want but I thought I'd try to find an existing solution before writing my own testing suite. :-)

In reply to Re^2: Embedded test by Sixtease
in thread Embedded test by Sixtease

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