Chapter 1. Beginning Testing

You've heard about the benefits of testing. You know that it can improve your code's reliability and maintainability as well as your development processes. You may even know about the wide range of available modules and idioms that Perl offers for testing Perl and non-Perl programs. In short, you may know everything except where to start.

The labs in this chapter walk through the most basic steps of running and writing automated tests with Perl. By the end of the chapter, you'll know how to start and continue testing, how Perl's testing libraries work, and where to find more libraries to ease your workload.