jdrago_999 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Monks,

How do I break up my unit tests (*.t) into different folders?

The idea being that I could have a folder structure like this: 
My-Module-0.001/
  t/
    /01.basic
      01.t
      02.t
      ...
      nn.t
    /02.foo
      01.t
      02.t
      ...
      nn.t
    ...
  /lib
  /sbin
  ...

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Is there something special I need to add to my Makefile.PL to have it descend through the various folders? Right now it only finds the tests at the top level in the "t" folder.

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Re: Test::Simple tests in multiple folders?
by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 09, 2008 at 18:58 UTC
    If you use Module::Build to generate the Makefile.PL, this section from the documentation is relevant for you:
    If the "recursive_test_files" property is true, then the "t/" directory will be scanned recursively for "*.t" files.

    If not, what build system do you use?

    Update: ExtUtils::MakeMaker has this in the documentation:

    Additional lowercase attributes
    ...
    test
           {TESTS => 't/*.t'}

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    I guess this is the place where you start to experiment, perhaps 't/*.t t/*/*.t' does what you want.

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      I've tested it and that works 
      C:\temp>nmake test

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.


        C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harn
+ess(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t t/*/*.t
t/T-S-T.......ok
t/t09/0901....ok
All tests successful.
Files=2, Tests=2,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr +  0.00 csys =  0.00 C
+PU)

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      If not, what build system do you use?
      I use ExtUtils::MakeMaker.

      Thanks for the tip - I'll look into it.
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