"Perl for Perl Newbies" - Part 5 - Good Programming Practices

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Automated Testing
  • 2.1. Motivation for Testing
  • 2.2. Demo
    • 2.2.1. Test::More
    • 2.2.2. ./Build test
  • 2.3. Types of Tests: Unit Tests, Integration Tests, System Tests
  • 2.4. Mocking
• 3. Version Control
  • 3.1. Motivation for Version Control
  • 3.2. Demo of Mercurial
• 4. Class Accessors
  • 4.1. Example
  • 4.2. Motivation
  • 4.3. Accessor modules on the CPAN
• 5. Useful Features in Recent Perls
  • 5.1. use base
  • 5.2. Lexical Filehandles
• 6. The local keyword
  • 6.1. Use and Abuse
• 7. Using POD for Documentation
  • 7.1. POD Demonstration
  • 7.2. Testing and Verifying POD
  • 7.3. Literate Programming
  • 7.4. POD Extensions
• 8. Module-Build and Module-Starter
  • 8.1. The Module-Starter Invocation Command
  • 8.2. Module-Build commands
  • 8.3. Adding meaningful code
  • 8.4. Getting rid of the boilerplate
  • 8.5. Additional Resources
• 9. Conclusion
  • 9.1. Links
  • 9.2. Thanks

Licence

To the extent possible under law, Shlomi Fish has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Perl for Perl Newbies. This work is published from Israel.