July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
4h 31m
English
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Preface
Is there any sexier topic in software development than software testing, at least besides game programming, 3D graphics, audio, high-performance clustering, cool web sites, and so on?
Okay, so software testing is low on the list. That’s unfortunate, because good software testing can increase your productivity, improve your designs, raise your quality, ease your maintenance burdens, and help to satisfy your customers, coworkers, and managers. It’s no surprise that the agile development techniques place such an emphasis on automated software testing—when it clicks for you and you understand it, you’ll wonder how you ever wrote software without it.
Perl has a bit of a reputation for being hackish and unserious. It’s certainly good for doing quick and dirty jobs quickly and dirtily. However, if you approach it with discipline, you’ll find that it’s suitable for big, serious projects. You probably already know this. You may not know how to apply the discipline, though. That’s where this book can help.
Perl has a strong history of automated tests. The earliest release of Perl 1.0 the authors know of included a comprehensive test suite. It’s only improved from there. The CPAN, a huge archive of freely available and reusable Perl code, exerts strong social pressure on contributors to write and maintain good test suites for their code. It also includes dozens of useful testing modules to make testing possible, or even easy.
Of course, your main job probably isn’t all Perl all the time. ...
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