Perl Test Tutorial

• Test Tutorial
  • Testing? Why do I care?
    • What Is Testing?
    • What Is Automated Testing?
    • Testing Promotes Automation
    • Why Test?
    • More informative bug reports
    • More More Reasons
    • The Real Reason For Writing Tests
    • Testing Is Laziness
  • What to test
    • Textbook Testing
    • XP Testing
    • On Test-First Programming
    • The two test-first questions
    • Test Bugs
    • Effects Of Testing Bugs
    • Knowing You're Done
    • There Is No Magic
  • And Now For Something Completely Different
    • The Most Basic Perl Test Program
    • Perl's Testing Protocol
    • There's TMTOWTDI and there's this...
    • I'm ok, you're ok
    • YOU FAILED!!!
    • Date::ICal
    • Where To Start?
    • new()
    • Names
    • What's In A Name
    • Test The Manual
    • SYNOPSIS
    • SYNOPSIS test
    • SYNOPSIS results
    • Test::More
    • is() you is() or is() you isnt() my $baby;
    • ok() to is()
    • Diagnostic Output
    • Interpreting The Results
    • When to use is()
    • Tests Are Sometimes Wrong
    • How Can I Be Sure The Test Is Right?
    • Version Control and Testing
    • Testing vs Brooks's Law
    • Testing Lots Of Values
    • It's Just Programming
    • The Good News
    • The Bad News
    • Plan? There Ain't No Plan!
    • Boundary tests
    • Bad Input Can Do Bad Things
    • Basic bad input example
    • Tests with warnings
    • Catching Warnings
    • Dealing With Death
    • Acceptance, Regression, Unit, Functional...
    • Blackbox vs Glassbox
    • Test::More toys
    • like()
    • isa_ok()
    • can_ok()
    • use_ok()
    • is_deeply()
    • diag()
    • Odd User Reactions
    • Getting People to RUN Your Tests
    • Make It Simple
    • Test On Commit
    • Daily Smoke Test
    • Test Before Release
    • Testing Is Eating Your Own Dog Food
    • 'make test'
    • What in the hell is all that mess?
    • The mess continued...
    • Still more mess...
    • New MakeMaker Is A Little Different
    • test.pl caveat
    • Testing and Perl versions
    • Testing, CPAN Modules, PREREQ_PM
    • More modules with Test::Simple/Test::More prerequisites
    • Everybody's Depending on Us!
    • t/lib trick
    • Make the GUI layer thin
    • Testing Web Stuff
    • Domain Specific Test Libraries
    • Test::Builder
    • Passing Tests Should PASS
    • Failure Is An Option
    • It'll Never Work
    • Skipping Tests
    • # SKIP
    • SKIP: block
    • skipall
    • Procrastination Codified
    • TODO Test
    • Automated TODO List
    • Keep Test Scripts Small
    • Big FTP/XML program example
    • Programs Are Hard, Libraries Are Easy
    • Separate Form And Functionality
    • Mock Code
    • System call / Power manager example
    • First, Isolate The Untestable Part
    • Then, Replace The Untestable Part
    • Forcing Failure
    • He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown
    • Further Reading
    • Thanks

Perl Test Tutorial

Perl Test Tutorial

Testing Perl programs is not an easy task. But this simple tutorial guide by Chromatic and Michael G Schwern will help to get started.