Chapter 8. Testing

Every programmer likes writing code, but only a brave and masochistic few actually like writing tests for their code. However, with the rise of XP, Agile programming, and other programming methodologies, it has become more important for programmers to write complete test suites for the code they produce.

Not only that, but thanks to the efforts of the Perl Kwalitee Assurance team, headed by Michael Schwern, there's a good deal of social pressure for CPAN module writers to come up with thorough automated test plans for their modules.

Thankfully, Schwern and others have also produced a bunch of modules that make producing such test plans relatively painless. We'll take a look at the more popular and useful modules in this chapter.