[tap-l] Nested tests with TAP::Harness and verbose output

[Andy Armstrong]

On 19 Nov 2007, at 21:43, Michael Moore wrote:

> I've set up our batch tests to use TAP::Harness's runtests to run
> sub-tests. We have many cases where BatchTestA calls BatchTestB which
> calls TestC.
>
> If I create a TAP::Harness object in both BatchTestA and BatchTestB,  
> it
> works fine (all good so far!).
>
> I wanted to get a little more information out of our tests, so I  
> passed
> in a hash with the parameter "verbosity => 1" to each of the
> TAP::Harness objects.
>
> I found that If any TAP::Harness object other than the top level test
> was set to verbose, it would break the TAP output. Is this expected
> behavior?

Yeah, I think so. It looks as if you're feeding the console output  
from the nested harness into the containing harness as TAP.

A test that runs under TAP::Harness should output syntactically clean  
TAP.

You could have a look at Test::Steering to discover how to run nested  
tests.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten