| The authors thank their editor, Allison Randal, for finding the right format for this book, for taking care of messy little details, and for weighing in with editorial advice when necessary. The authors also thank everyone in O'Reilly's production, marketing, tools, and PR groups who put this book in the hands of people who need it. The authors also thank a bevy of technical reviewers for thoughtful suggestions, without which the book would be much poorer. In alphabetical order, they are David Adler, Ann Barcomb, Tony Bowden, Shawn Boyette, Jim Brandt, Mike Burns, Ben Evans, Shlomi Fish, Adrian Howard, Paul Johnson, James Keenan, Pete Krawczyk, Christopher Laco, Andy Lester, Pete Markowsky, Tom McTighe, Steve Peters, Curtis Poe, Steven Schubiger, Michael Schwern, Ricardo Signes, Brett Warden, and Geoffrey Young. Any remaining errors are the fault of the authors, or perhaps space aliens . Finally, the authors thank everyone whose work has gone into the testing strategies and modules described here. Everyone's better for it. Ian Langworth I'd like to thank brian d foy for noticing my Perl testing quick-reference card and his initial suggestion to get the ball rolling. Thanks to the terrific faculty and staff at the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University ” especially the CCIS Systems Group folks and their volunteer group , the Crew. They have provided me with an amazing community over the years , to which I owe so much. Special thanks goes to Professor Richard Rasala, who mentored me for three months in this project's early stages. Thanks goes to Andy for all of his help and to Allison for letting this happen. Allison also set me up with a brilliant coauthor, whose grasp of the language amazes me to no end. This book wouldn't be nearly as good as it is without chromatic's tremendous writing prowess. Thanks to all of my great friends (too many to list here), my wonderful parents, and to Emily. These people have been wonderfully supportive and deserve an immense amount of credit for having to put up with me regularly. chromatic Thanks to Allison for suggesting I work on this book and to Ian for coming up with the idea and accepting a coauthor. Thanks to everyone at O'Reilly for a fantastic day job. Thanks also to my friends who celebrated when I did and commiserated when I complained, especially the U of P bunch and Mel, Esther, Kate, and Eva. Apologies and love go to my family and most of all to my parents, Floyd and Annette, who know full well that I learned about testing things very early. At least now it has some productive value. |
