Hi All,
  Having nearly finished my latest software update, I've decided to write a comprehensive test suite to ensure that everything is working properly and making it easy to see if future changes have broken things. Why I didn't do this in the first place is beyond me...
  I've been reading through my 'Perl Testing' book (many thanks to chromatic and Ian) and putting some tests together in the usual t/*.t files. I don't have a lot of experience with this but it all seems pretty straight forward and the book is a great help.
  The problem I've hit is this. My software uses CGI, and is running on many different machines across the net. I want users to be able to run some or all of the tests at any time through the browser based admin area.
I put together a quick script that ran the tests with a simple do and tested it on my local IIS/Perl8 setup. 
do ('t/00modules.t');

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When I ran the cgi in my browser I got:- 
1..2
ok 1 - use module;
ok 2 - DateNext() should increment the date by 1 day
doneFree to wrong pool 222c90 not 40c01b1 during global destruction.

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The CPU hits 100% for a few seconds then I get a popup saying:- 
Perl Command Line Interpreter has encountered a problem and needs to c
+lose.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.

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Seems this is causing a perl to panic. If I run the test through the command line it works fine.

Now I know I could just use system or `` to call the test with perl, but on some of the installations (especially the Win2003/IIS/Perl8 ones) the cgi's done have permission to run commands in that way.

So I've hit a bit of a brick wall as I have no idea why using do () is causing a panic and what I can do to fix it.

I hoping a monk with more testing experience can help me.


Lyle

Many thanks to YourMother for providing a solution:- 
    use Test::Harness::Straps;
    my $strap = new Test::Harness::Straps;
    my %results = $strap->analyze_file( 't/00modules.t' );
    use Data::Dumper;
    print Data::Dumper->Dump([\%results]);

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In reply to Running test files from a cgi by cosmicperl

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