Since many people seem to like and want the features in my custom Test::More programs (http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/35363), I think a custom module should be on the CPAN. This module should incorporate both the tests people most often use and the features they really want supported but aren't available in the Test::Simple distribution.
To that end, I modified my CPAN::Mini::Extract to extract the tests (been meaning to do that anyway) and I wrote a program to find the all tests and report on the most commonly used test programs. It's not perfect, but I realized that the most common programs will be so common that I can easily tell what people are likely to want. Out of 286 test modules used, here are the top 10: Test::More 44473 Test::Exception 1380 Test::Simple 731 Test::Base 316 Test::Builder::Tester 193 Test::NoWarnings 174 Test::Differences 150 Test::MockObject 139 Test::Deep 127 Test::Warn 118 For various reasons, it seems to me that I I should include Test::More, Test::Exception, Test::Differences and Test::Deep. I also think that I could include &explain (diag() only if verbose), 'die on fail' and 'bail out on fail'. I'm not sure of the package name, though. Test::Even::More sounds odd, but other names are welcome. Thoughts? Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
