One of the problems with troubleshooting perl modules on VMS is the very non-standard make facility of MMS/MMK. In particular, it's hard to pass in extra qualifiers to mmk test like TEST_VERBOSE=1, or to mmk testdb like TEST_FILE=t/00fred.t
The more recent versions of Test::Harness include a script called prove which enables you to run the equivalent of "make test" for individual scripts. I have found this a boon for developing modules on Unix. This would be really handy for VMS too. Sadly, some of the command line options don't seem to work (it also fails tests on VMS). I have contemplated posting to RT, but I doubt that Andy Lester has access to a VMS machine, or the inclination to fix problems in what is becoming an obscure platform :(. I wonder if anyone on this forum can help. Cheers. Ivor.
