Perl Testing, 9780596100926
Paperback
Good software testing can increase productivity, improve designs, raise quality, and make you more productive overall. This hands-on labs series teaches how Perl’s test tools work and how to use them to create basic and complex tests and interpret the results. This notebook is helpful in reducing th…

Perl Testing

a developer's notebook

  • Paperback

    202 pages

  • Release Date

    9 August 2005

Summary

Is there any sexier topic in software development than software testing? That is, besides game programming, 3D graphics, audio, high-performance clustering, cool websites, et cetera? Okay, so software testing is low on the list. And 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. Perl has a strong history of automated test…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780596100926
ISBN-10:0596100922
Series:Developer's Notebook Ser.
Author:Ian Langworth
Publisher:O'Reilly Media
Imprint:O'Reilly Media
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:202
Release Date:9 August 2005
Weight:354g
Dimensions:234mm x 180mm x 14mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Perl Testing bietet eine kompakte und umfassende Einführung ins Thema, wobei theoretische Betrachtungen […] außen vor bleiben. […] für einen schnellen Einstieg in dieses häufig etwas vernachlässigte Thema ist er aber genau richtig.” - Dr. Peter Dintelmann, iX 2⁄2006

“This book in Notebook Style has a very structured format which makes it easy to learn the topic step-by-step and to get support to many questions. […] This book fills a gap since in system programming - one of the central areas Perl is used - structured coding and testing code is often neglected. The sections “How do I do that”, “What just happened”, and especially “What about” in FAQ-style cover most of the details and questions of the discussed topic in a very structured and easy-to-understand manner. […]”

  • Prof. Dr. Axel Hein, Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule Nürnberg, Februar 2006
About The Author

Ian Langworth

Ian Langworth has been using Perl since 1997, and actively involved in the Perl community since 2003. In 2004 he contributed Apache-TinyCP and several Kwiki modules to CPAN, and spoke at Perl-related conferences such as YAPC, Usenix, and LISA. chromatic is the technical editor of the O’Reilly Network, specializing in programming, Linux®, and open source development. He’s also been known to evangelize to his co-workers toward better development practices. chromatic has occasionally produced startling numbers of test suites – and a few testing modules – for projects including Perl 5, Perl 6, and Parrot. Someday, he’d like to claim some responsibility for improving the quality of all software, by writing articles, producing good code, giving interesting talks, and developing better tools. He lives west of Portland, Oregon with a creek in his backyard and a park one house over. It’s too late for him to choose a more realistic-sounding pen name.

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