I am trying to strike a balance between pleasing the Romans whilst in Rome, and organizing the testing framework for a module in a way that I deem sensible for my objectives. Specifically, while h2xs gives you a skeleton that assumes a t/ subdirectory, and a collection of tests t/*.t, I would much prefer to have a tree-like hierarchy of tests. It's not readily apparent to me if there is a good way to do this that doesn't involve an odious amount of hand hacking of the skeleton proffered by h2xs. Consequently I'm wondering what experiences other people have had with this matter.

My module has a collection of class files in a tree structure. Presently, I am using Test::Unit, and for each Foo.pm class file, there is a corresponding FooTest.pm file which contains a class that derives from Test::Unit::TestCase. Within each subdirectory of the class tree, there is a file called TestSuite.pm which inherits from Test::Unit::TestSuite, and subsumes all of the *Test.pm files from its directory, as well as any TestSuite.pm files in subdirectories. The result is a tree of test suites which allow you to test any sub-tree of the module in isolation, or to test the whole thing with one command line that employs the TestRunner.pl script that comes with the Test::Unit module.

Before pushing this module out to CPAN, I would like to move from using Test::Unit to Test::More, since it seems to be the de facto standard for testing, and Test::Unit seems to be ill-maintained. I do not, however, which to squash all of my tests into one directory, poorly mimicking a tree of tests by having really long and cumbersome file names with dashes or what have you.

So, in summary, the question I am posing to my fellow monks is as follows... Is there a good way to use Test::More in a fashion that plays well with Test::Harness whilst employing a battery of tests in a tree structure as opposed to a single flat directory?