A practical guide to testing in Modern Perl
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A practical guide to testing in Modern Perl

About the Book

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This is a book for pragmatic programmers. A little bit of theory and a lot of practical examples on how to test your software inside-out and outside-in. We try not to be very opinionated and explain different techniques and approaches to testing. You will find a lot of references if you're into the academia, but with examples applied to the real world problems that we are all facing in our day to day programming.

We will tackle together such important topics as the simplicity and effectiveness of unit tests, importance of integration tests and the business value of end to end testing. We will see how the tests can guide the development, fight the bug regressions and speed up feature implementations.

About the Authors

Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi
Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi

I am an open source freak with almost ~200 open repos (github.com/vti). Also I am a software quality addict, this is why I created kritika.io. In my free time (who has it?) I ride my road bicycle and participate in long-distance audax events (so-called randonneuring).

Gregor Goldbach
Gregor Goldbach

Hi, I'm Gregor. I've been a software developer for over 20 years now. My roles included team member and team lead in both software development and quality assurance. I live with my family and two cats in sunny Northern Germany.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
    • Who should read this book
    • What this book is about
    • What this book is not about
  • The purpose of testing
  • Quick Start
    • Minimum prerequisites
    • Testing a logging module
  • The Testing Infrastructure
    • What are tests anyway?
    • Proving that we are wrong
    • The “Test Anything” Protocol
    • Testing a subroutine
    • Arrange, Act and Assert
    • Key Take Aways
  • CPAN Testers
    • Reporting tests as a user
    • Becoming a CPAN Tester
    • Improving your tests as an author
  • Autotest
    • Building the command line tool
      • Running a test program
      • Checking for change
      • Testing the application logic
      • Key Take Aways
    • Building the REST server
      • A word about resources
      • Testing a basic REST server
      • Incorporating our working code
      • Testing an API
      • Key Take Aways
    • Building the web application
      • Testing outside-in
      • Testing the client, not the server
      • Testing the functionality, not the GUI
      • Key Take Aways
  • Temporary data
    • Temporary directories and files
    • Temporary databases
    • Temporary version control repositories
  • Fake Services
    • Fake email server
  • Web Framework Testing
    • Catalyst
  • Non-deterministic code and tests
    • Side effects
    • Dates
      • Dependency injection
      • Factory method mocking
      • System call mocking
    • Race conditions
    • Unwanted randomness
    • Wanted randomness
      • Frequency test
      • Serial test
      • Poker test
      • Runs test
      • Autocorrelation test
  • Alternative test approaches and runners
    • Specification tests
    • Class-based testing
    • Cucumber/BDD/Gherkin
    • QuickCheck
  • Interactions with the outside world
    • Test results formatters
    • Continious integration services
    • Results reporting
  • Advanced testing patterns
    • Testing asynchronous code
  • Exotic testing patterns and methods
    • Mutation Testing
  • Notes

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