Could work with Travis CI on the first attempt :)

.travis.yml

+language: "perl"
+
+perl:
+  - "5.10"
+
+env:
+  - COVERALLS=true  DB=sqlite
+
+before_install:
+    - sudo apt-get -y update
+    - sudo apt-get -y install unzip
+    - wget https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/archive/bioperl-release-1-2-3.zip
+    - unzip bioperl-release-1-2-3.zip
+
+
+install:
+    - cpanm -v --installdeps --notest .
+    - cpanm -n Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls
+    - cpanm -n DBD::SQLite
+
+script: "./travisci/harness.sh"
+
+notifications:
+  email:
+    on_success: always
+    on_failure: always

cpanfile

+requires 'DBI';
+requires 'DBD::mysql';
+

travisci/harness.sh

+#!/bin/bash
+
+export PERL5LIB=$PWD/bioperl-live-bioperl-release-1-2-3
+
+echo "Running test suite"
+if [ "$COVERALLS" = 'true' ]; then
+  PERL5OPT='-MDevel::Cover=+ignore,bioperl,+ignore,ensembl-test' perl $PWD/scripts/runtests.pl -verbose t $SKIP_TESTS
+else
+  perl $PWD/scripts/runtests.pl t $SKIP_TESTS
+fi
+
+rt=$?
+if [ $rt -eq 0 ]; then
+  if [ "$COVERALLS" = 'true' ]; then
+    echo "Running Devel::Cover coveralls report"
+    cover --nosummary -report coveralls
+  fi
+  exit $?
+else
+  exit $rt
+fi