I'm writing some web based business application which tends to get too complicated to test - so I'm seeking for some perl wisdom not to reinvent the wheel ;)

Well, most of base packages are tested well in unit testing (Test::More etc.), but the point is that not everyting can be tested that way. I use some bussiness logic based on actual database data, so for some test I require to establish test database. I used to work with SQLite but now I'm forced to use some full-scale SQL with triggers and procedures.

What do I have now

Two separate sets of test, one for unit testing (pretty simple so I will skip them) and second one for use case testing which does the following:

• establish test database environment - setup local postgresql instance (initdb in tmp dir etc...)
• create test database - create schema with DBIx::Class->deploy
• populate database with data - loading them from text or JSON files
• start application server
• do some basic function testing with WWW::Mechanize
• do some proper full-scale user interface tests with WWW::Selenium

Whole app is built with Module::Build using TAP::Harness

I use Jenkins CI and it currently only runs unit testing via ./Build test and formats them to JUnit (TAP::Formatter::JUnit) so I can see reports online.

What do I want to have

I want to be able to run all tests in Jenkins environment...

So, what's the problem

The problem is that I decided to create two global test cases called ./t/unit.t and ./t/case.t. The first one looks like this:

use strict;
use warnings;
use TAP::Harness;
use Test::More 'no_plan';

my $tap = TAP::Harness->new(
    {   'color'           => 1,
        'verbosity'       => 1,
        'lib'             => ['lib', 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch'],
        'timer'           => 1
    }
);

my @tests = (glob('t/unit/**/*.t'), glob('t/unit/*.t'));
$tap->runtests(@tests);

ok(1, "Unit tests run");
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and as you can see it just creates another TAP instance and runs all the tests in ./t/unit/ directory recursively. It runs fine, but ./Build test yells that tests are out of sequence, that they fail and so...

So my question is: Is there some other, proper way to this kind of testing

Any clues, hints or CPAN links would be greatly appreciated

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