A common problem with many test suites is that they can take a long time to run. the longer they run, the less likely you are to run the tests.

test::aggregate borrows a trick from apache::registry to load up your tests at once, create a separate package for each test and wraps each package in a method named run_the_tests. this allows one to load perl only once and related modules only once. if you have modules which are expensive to load, this can dramatically speed up a test suite.

warning: this is alpha code. the interface is not guaranteed to be stable. further, check out test::aggregate::nested (included with this distribution). it's a more robust implemenation which does not have the same limitations as test::aggregate.