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Are you testing regular code, or testing other tests?

If the former, why not just something like 
my $cond = 1 == 2;
ok( $cond   ); # fails 
ok( ! $cond ); # passes

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... or whatever boolean condition.

If the latter, Test::Builder::Tester seems designed to test other tests.

To be fair, I could be misunderstanding - this is not a use case I've come across before.

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Re^4: Inverting test conditions in Test::More ? (workaround)
by LanX (Saint) on Jul 24, 2020 at 13:54 UTC
    > If the former, why not just something like

    I'm looking for a generic approach, is_deeply is an example where its not that easy, but reiterating an example with is_deeply would lead the thread again into a different direction.

    So either I give a trivial example which is too easy or a complex where people are concentrating on the concrete example instead discussing the abstraction.

    > If the latter, Test::Builder::Tester seems designed to test other tests.

    Good call! looks promising, thanks. :)

    > Are you testing regular code, or testing other tests?

    Both. I already experimented with Test::Builder to generate another Test object redirecting the output.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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