Test::Lives This module provides only one function, "lives_and", which allows you to test things that could (but shouldn't) throw an exception, without having to have two separate tests with two separate results (and two separate descriptions). You pass it a block of code to run (which should contain one test assertion) and a test description to give the assertion inside the block. The description will be available inside the block in the $_ variable. If the block ends up throwing an exception, a test failure will be logged. INSTALLATION This is a Perl module distribution. It should be installed with whichever tool you use to manage your installation of Perl, e.g. any of cpanm . cpan . cpanp -i . Consult http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html for further instruction. Should you wish to install this module manually, the procedure is perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Aristotle Pagaltzis. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.