Let's suppose that I have a suite of test files which I customarily run
with 'prove':
prove t/*.t
... where the tests in t/ are:
alpha.t
beta.t
gamma.t
Let's further suppose that each of these three tests simulates the
operation of a Perl program which is normally called with command-line
arguments or options:
perl myperlprogram.pl --option1 --option2 arg1 arg2
I know in advance that some of my users call myperlprogram.pl with
options and some don't -- but I don't know what values they provide for
those options. I would like my tests to be sufficiently flexible as to
be able to handle the various use cases.
I would like to be able to provide the tests run via 'prove' with
options something like this:
some_variant_of_prove t/*.t --option1 --option2 arg1 arg2
... where those 4 command-line options/arguments would be available to
*each* of the individual test files in the suite. A given test file
would not necessarily have to respond to those options/arguments, but if
it wanted to, it would do so simply by assigning the contents of the
test script's @ARGV to some other array.
Can this be done?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
