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As I see it, though, it's difficult to skip a test that requires unavailable modules.

Not really:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings 'FATAL' => 'all'; use Test::More; BEGIN { if ( eval { require Cache::Memcached } ) { plan tests => 1; } else { plan skip_all => "Cache::Memcached is not installed"; } } { require_ok( 'My::Module' ); # or whatever you want to test }