a) They can have names (internally). At my previous job, our test suite required every test be a single file, and yet it still output TAP (you specified which

a) They can have names (internally). At my previous job, our test suite required every test be a single file, and yet it still output TAP (you specified which tests you wanted via filenames). b) No, you don't have to know prior how many tests will run. If you read the spec, you'll see there's an option to print the final count at the end.