BEGIN

Counting tests in the small blocks (use subtest instead)

When you are writing many test in one file quickly you'll face the problem of keeping the "plan" up to date. You will add a test and forget to update the number worse, you'll add many tests and when you suddenly remember you did not update the number it is too late already. Will you switch to "no_plan"? Will you count the ok(), is() and similar calls? Will you run the test and update your expectation accordingly?

There is trick I learned on the perl-qa mailing list.

You declare a variable called $tests at the beginning of the script. Then at the end of each section you update the number.

examples/test-perl/t/begin_block.t

use strict;
use warnings;

use MyTools;

use Test::More;
my $tests;

plan tests => $tests;


{
    my $result = sum(1, 1);
    is $result, 2,  '1+1';
    BEGIN { $tests += 1; }
}

{
    my $result = sum(2, 2);
    is $result, 4,  '2+2';
    BEGIN { $tests += 1; }
}