A friend has written some monitor-type tests (is machine X pingable, etc) using Test::More, and now his customer wants the output to be more "user friendly", say, like, "Test 6 of foo.t failed: POP server foo doesn't respond" etc. He asked how best to do this and I'm toying with a couple of ideas for intercepting the TAP output so I can munge it to the customer's desire.

First is to tie STDOUT and STDERR and grab the output that way. I haven't tried that yet because I experimented instead with redefining Test::Builder::_print() as follows via a module that would replace Test::More in my friend's test. Any suggestions for the best approach to take? 

package Testicle;
use Test::Builder::Module;
require Test::More;
our @ISA = qw(Test::More);
use base 'Exporter';
our @EXPORT = @Test::More::EXPORT;
Test::More->import;

my $builder;
BEGIN {
  $builder = Test::Builder::Module->builder;
  my $class = ref $builder;
  no strict 'refs';
  no warnings 'redefine';
  *{ "${class}::_print" } = sub { shift; "Have my way with @_" };
}

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Peter Scott
Perl Medic

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