I am trying to setup a test suite in perl, and I was hoping some one can help me with the overall design/setup of a test suite/testharness in perl:

I am using h2xs to generate a template for modules and test scripts, and using Test::More for testharness. The directory structure generated by h2xs, after some of my modifications is as follows:

$ ls -Ra Perf/
Perf/:
.  ..  MANIFEST  Makefile.PL  README  lib  t

Perf/lib:
.  ..  Perf.pm

Perf/t:
.  ..  Controller_perf.t  perf1.pl  perf2.pl

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- I plan to setup different Modules/libs for different test segments e.g. Performance (Perf.pm), Call processing (CP.pm), ...
- Each test segment will have its own set of test cases, so for instance Performance segment will have perf1.pl, perf2.pl ...
- I intend to have a controller script, e.g. controller_perf.t, which will call all the scripts that need to be run in a particular segment. So within controller I have "system" calls to execute the different test scripts, e.g. controller_perf.pm will call:

$test1Result = system('\t\perf1.pl');
$test2Result = system('\t\perf2.pl');

-On doing, make test, all the .t files under /t will get executed, so it will execute the controller.t script only, which in turn will call each of the .pl scripts. I want to have the controller script so I can skip tests, and collect all test results in a single script which will write results to a text file.
- Is this a good way of going about setting up a test suite? Is there something I should be doing differently, or something can be improved here?
Thanks!
jc

In reply to Setting up a test suite in perl by jasoncollins

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