I emphasize using Perl as a community language and am turning to you to get perspectives on an interesting subject about Perl software engineering. What exactly is wrong about soliciting the advice of a respected bunch of peers on a subject?

Trying to use the community to overrule your boss is generally a bad idea. ;)

It's not that you are turning to the community to help. It's that your boss has already said what they think is the correct solution, and you want to refute that with a buch of comments from a website. Not a good plan.

I don't mean testing the modules, I mean testing the (web/command-line) app which uses the modules.

If you write good module tests, that should be a very short process.

In reply to Re^3: modular app development - where do your modules live? by DStaal
in thread modular app development - where do your modules live? by metaperl

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