I appreciate your attempt to clarify your position regarding Test::* -- and I think you make (by proxy) a very good point about the critical role of thinking about a problem rather than falling back on rote process.

However, what I would really like to see are some examples of the practices -- varied though they might be to each situation -- that you have used as an alternative.

The one CPAN module I found (Win32::Fmode) is rather spare on testing -- perhaps a symptom of Test::More frustration rather than an alternative.

I'd be interested in a meditation from you that lays out a few case studies along the lines of:

• Here is some code I was working on
• Here is some functionality I needed to test
• Here is how I decided to test this code

or

• Here is some code I inherited
• Here is the awful test code I inherited
• This is what I did to make the test code easier to work with

I think this would do a lot to educate us not just on your position -- which I think I understand better now and respect the core principles of -- but on your practices, which I'd genuinely like to learn from (without adopting slavishly, of course).