Following in the footsteps of the recent discussion on extending no_plan to cover the case of us making sure the script actually finished 'normally', it occurred to me that another thing that might be useful is a means to have Test::Harness(? - I could be wrong) update the plan in the scripts it just ran. I envision something like $HARNESS_PLAN=update_plan make test # in each script run, replaces no_plan with actual number of tests run, or updates a plan number with the new actual number $HARNESS_PLAN=no_plan make test # reset all plans to no_plan I'd also think that there'd need to be a finer grained way to control this , so I think something like this might help # never let T::H update this - it is right and any other answer is wrong use Test::More tests => 42; # NO_UPDATE or # still under active development, plan in constant flux use Test::More qw(no_plan); # NO_UPDATE How the text replacement would happen, I dont know - I guess we'd want to script 'perl -i -pe "s/qw\(no_plan\);/tests => $num_run;/' /path/to/script/just/run.pl' I'm just making the proposal, note getting down to details. Another idea is to have T::H do a dry run of finding scripts to run, to aid those who' like to try to develope a test-dashboard app, and who need to know how many scripts are going to run. Something like $HARNESS_SCRIPTS=count_scripts make test This could have T::H set an envvar like HARNESS_SCRIPTS_FOUND, or somehow communicate back its findings.
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