Monks,

I'm starting using a common approach to make tests, based on module-starter. And so I have t subdirectories such as: 

t/10_Module1Test
t/20_Module2Test
t/30_Module3Test

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Each subdirectory will contain numerical-prefixed series of .t files.

My questions are, these tests will be run against many configuration files. For each individual test to load a config file is rather silly. Is there a well-known approach of sharing resources between multiple tests ? And, how can several configuration files be used, with the same tests run for each config file ? The numbering scheme seems to point to sequential execution instead of loops.

Bonus question: I've read José's Guide (here on PerlMonks) although it does not elaborate on testing strategies. Are there references out there that explores various ways of constructing tests ?

Thanks and best wishes for 2010!

In reply to Tests strategies: sharing of resources by carcassonne

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