September 2012
Beginner
744 pages
15h 48m
English
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Chapter 14
Testing
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:
- Understanding basic tests
- Learning the Test::More module in depth
- Using different testing modules
- Understanding xUnit style testing
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The author recently downloaded and built Perl version 5.15.9. All 521,047 tests passed. That’s right: Perl ships with more than a half-million tests. Not all of them are perfect, and sometimes they verify that a feature works the way it was written and not the way that was intended, but it’s still an incredible number. Few programming languages ship with more than a half-million tests. Testing your software is easy, and the Perl community is keen on testing. A few years ago, some people still argued against testing, but today professional Perl developers test more often than not.
BASIC TESTS
Consider the following line of code:
sub reciprocal { return 1 / shift }Because the reciprocal of a number is 1 divided by that number, this looks like the canonical definition of a reciprocal. What could possibly go wrong?
When developers write tests, they often write a test ...
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