SYNOPSIS use Test::More; use Test::Some 'foo'; plant tests => 3; subtest foo => sub { pass }; # will be skipped subtest bar => sub { fail }; DESCRIPTION This module allows to run a subset of the 'subtest' tests given in a test file. The module declaration takes a whitelist of the subtests we want to run. Any subtest that doesn't match any of the whitelist items will be skipped (or potentially bypassed). The test files don't even need to be modified, as the module can also be invoked from the command-line. E.g., $ perl -MTest::Some=foo t/tests.t If no argument is given to the module declaration, the environment variable TEST_SOME will be used as the defaults. For example, this is equivalent to the example above: $ export TEST_SOME=foo $ perl -MTest::Some t/tests.t Whitelist items '~' Tells Test::Some to bypass the non-whitelisted tests instead of skipping them. That makes for a smaller output, but the test file would now fail if it has a plan tests = $n> line (as we'll only report on $n - bypassed tests). Subtest name At its most simple, the names of the subtests we want to run can be passed. # run subtests 'foo' and 'bar' use Test::Some 'foo', 'bar'; Negation An item prefixed with a bang (!) is negated. use Test::Some '!foo'; # run all tests but 'foo' Note that a subtest is run if it matches any item in the whitelist, so use Test::Some '!foo', '!bar'; will run all tests as `foo` is not `bar` and vice versa. Regular expression A string beginning with a slash (/), or a regular expression object will be considered to be a regular expression to be compared against the subtest name use Test::Some '/foo'; # only tests with 'foo' in their name # equivalent to use Test::Some qr/foo/; Tags Strings prefixed with a colon (:) are considered to be tags. # run all tests with the 'basic' tag use Test::Some ':basic'; Tags can be assigned to a subtest by putting them after the coderef. E.g., subtest foo, sub { ... }, 'tag1', 'tag2'; Test::More's subtest ignore those trailing arguments, so they be put there without breaking backward compatibility. Code A coderef can be passed. It'll have the subtest name and its tags passed in as `$_` and `%_`, respectively. # run tests with tags 'important' *and* 'auth' use Test::Some sub { $_{important} and $_{auth} }; SEE ALSO * http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/test-some - introduction blog entry