chromatic wrote in perl.qa : > One idea is attaching a simple test case to every bug report that > doesn't have test code that's nearly right for the core. It's a lot > easier to touch up a test case than it is to write one, so we could do > a lot of good by turning bug reports into executable tests without > having to worry about where they'll eventually end up.
"Write tests before fixes" :) This always help. For such standalone 1-bug test scripts, Test::More is (most of the time) ok. However there are places in the core where Test::More can't be used, simply because they're tests for core features used by Test::More.