On May 23, 2008, at 2:32 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
I have always wanted a reason to ask you people,
how are you improving your testing skills?
Are there any particular books you recommend?
Are you reading blogs that are really good place to learn about
testing?
Or are you just writing more tests and improve by experience?
For me, it's mostly practice and scratching itches, and picking up
ideas from mailing lists.
I started with Test::Simple way back when, then Test::More simplified
the code. Then I read chromatic et al.'s developer notebook
(mentioned earlier -- useful initially, but I very rarely refer to it
anymore). Then I joined perl-qa. Then I found and fell in love with
Test::Class. The other test modules I use (including, notably,
Test::WWW::Mechanize) scratched individual itches along the way.
I think Devel::Cover is what really gave me religion. Quantifying my
testing made the process more tangible and made it easier to justify
the time investment to myself and others.
Chris
