In the context of OO code you could:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $self = bless {tests => [qw(something else another bogus)]};

for my $testName (@{$self->{tests}}) {
    my $test = $self->can ("test_$testName");
    
    if (! $test) {
        warn "Test $testName not available\n";
        next;
    }
    
    print "Running test $testName:\n";
    $test->($self);
}

print "Testing complete\n";


sub test_something {
  print "something\n";
}

sub test_else {
  print "something else\n";
}

sub test_another {
  print "another unimaginative statement\n";
}
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Prints:

Running test something:
Test bogus not available
something
Running test else:
something else
Running test another:
another unimaginative statement
Testing complete
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which allows derived classes to add tests that are managed by the parent class.