I've searched, but could not find an automated way of relating the test numbers output to the console by the perl test_harness (ExtUtils::Command::MM normally invoked through 'make test') to the actual tests in the *t programs; eg: 
../t/10.system.t (Wstat: 1024 Tests: 82 Failed: 2)
  Failed tests:  77-78

Great! But which of 82 is 77 (without error-prone and painful manual counting)!!!

Manually inserting the number as a searchable string in a comment is going to get out of date real quick; I'm just not that disciplined.

Tracking by the string message of the failing test is practical (mostly) but painful.

I'd have though there's be a module which automatically adds a comment line with the sequential test number before each statement that Test is going to evaluate. If there is, I can't find it. How do others resolve this problem on non-trivial test suites?

In reply to Relating Pert test report number to test items in the code by ron7

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