So often you open up a test suite and see 20 test programs starting with something like this:

  use Test::More tests => 23;
  use Test::Differences;
  use Test::Exception;
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That's awfully repetitive and if you have a standard set of testing tools, that gets annoying. Instead, I'd like to do something like this:

  use My::Tests tests => 20;

That would incorporate all of the above and look like this:

  package My::Tests;

  use Test::Custom qw(
    Test::More
    Test::Differences
    Test::Exception
  );

  1;
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Of course, you'd have to have importing facilities and "conditional" loading:

  package My::Tests;

  use Test::Custom qw(
      Test::More
      Test::Differences
    ),
    'Test::SomethingOrOther' => [ 'bulges_ok' ];

  Test::Custom->add('Test::NoWarnings') if $some_condition;

  1;
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The question I'm trying to figure out is the best way to implement this. I could have Test::Custom (better names welcome) build something like this:

  eval <<"END";
  package $calling_package;

  use Test::More @test_more_imports;
  use Test::Exception @test_exception_imports;
  use Test::Differences @test_differences_imports;
  END
  
  if ( my $error = $@ ) { ... }
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However, I just *know* there are problems with this, but I can't think for the life of me what they might be. Does that seem sane to folks? Am I overlooking something blindingly obvious?

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