Congratulations. Writing tests for my modules is one of my favorite parts of development, as I recently commented.

Between the books you listed and the perlmonks nodes you have likely read there isn't much that I would add to this node about testing, so I'll focus on topics that reduce the number of failing tests.

When writing code you will frequently solve the same problem multiple times. This can be reduced by reusing modules from CPAN, and by learning to recognize those patterns and creating resuable components for that design pattern.

Investing some time in improving your programming practices would be good too. The following should be required reading for professional perl programmers:

When preparing your own tests it would be a good idea to look at what other people have tested in their projects. Choose a couple CPAN modules that you use regularly and look over the test scripts that they use. To do this download the .tgz distribution, untar it, and look in the t directory.

In reply to Re: RFC: Perl Testing -- How to Introduce to a team by imp
in thread RFC: Perl Testing -- How to Introduce to a team by NovMonk

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