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--- Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net> wrote: > HARNESS_BAIL_ON_FAIL => Stop the whole run on the first failure > > And perhaps for completeness: > > HARNESS_SKIP_ON_FAIL => Stop the failing test program on first > failure Remember that neither of those can really stop the test program from running. The first could halt *subsequent* test programs from running and the second could merely discard subsequent test results from a given TAP stream. So imagine you have a Web spider with 1000 tests and it fails at the third test. If the behavior is in the harness, it stops processing results but the test program keeps running unless you deliberately try to kill the process. I think it's much cleaner that the thing which generates the test output knows when to stop. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, though. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/Thread Previous | Thread Next