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August 17, 2005
Tests are a good thing
Testing with perl is a wonderful thing, and has saved my ass a few times.
Like today.
We have a horrible, horrible billing system (created by a third party) with an equally horrible database schema running on a horrible database server (I'm looking at you, Microsoft).
I have to be able to create tickets for this beast, but since I have no documentation I have to rely on code, which is documented as well as the schema.
So, naturally, I write tests. This, coupled with the fact that my code returns undef if something bad happens long before anything is inserted into the database made getting things working much easier.
I loves me some .t files!
Posted by ed at August 17, 2005 3:01 PM
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