I have a test plan that does a sequence of steps, building on each other. I call the file with Test::Harness. I wrap each step in an "ok" statement, and I can get a nice statement at the end about the total time used in the process. That's very nice. I don't see a way to get it to tell me how many milliseconds each individual test took, though.

Technically, I don't really care about the absolute numbers. I actually want to know whether speeding up step N in various ways will slow down step N+1. I'm sure other clever things would come to mind if I could get it working, but I had in mind something that would process the output from my Test::Harness run and come up with some sort of statement about where my bottlenecks are, etc. So I'd like the output to be something like 

ok 1 - 100 ms - the first test
ok 2 - 85 ms - test #2
ok 3 - 25 ms - done now
1..3
ok 210 ms
Result: PASS

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and I'd look at that and do something with it.

As it stands now, I get most of this information but can't get the intermediate "ok" statements to tell me their timing. I wonder if there's a different tool I should look at or if I can just teach Test::Harness to do its output differently. I understand it would work fine if I used separate test files for each little piece, but then I don't see how to pass the results from one to the next.

Thanks for your help,

dave

In reply to Getting timing details from a test by mcdave

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