Greetings Monks,
First post here, I hope you can nudge me in the direction of an answer to this question. I'm building a test framework that tests a number of different components, each with it's own suite of test cases. So far I've been able to get each suite's results into a single TAP output file for that suite with all of the test cases numbered from 1..n

However one of the suites I have to integrate consists of a number of .t files. Each one generates TAP. I've tried running all of these using TAP::Harness. This runs the tests fine, however the final output from:

runtests (@testfiles);

is no longer in TAP format.

When the framework completes I parse each of the final results TAP files from each test suite using TAP::Parser, to generate a single report for each component.

I could of course set STDOUT to a file and do something like this:

for each my $testfile (@testfiles){system ("perl $testfile"); }

But if I do that I'll obviously get TAP 1..n for each test file rather than 1..(total number of test cases in all files)

If this is clearer than mud, could anyone tell me whether there is a way to either:
a) run all test files and generate a single TAP output file 1..n test cases total OR
b) parse n TAP files where each one presents results 1..n for each test file into a single comprehensive output

I'm hoping not to have to do any editing to the already existing .t files in this test suite.

Thanks for the help,

Eric

In reply to TAP question by emalossi

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