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Today we talk about Charles’ adventures in implementing automated testing in his WordPress-based client portal. We talk about why Charles has resisted unit testing, his epiphany about feature testing/integration testing, how he implemented automated testing with Perl, and more.
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Show Notes and Links
- The Testing Renaissance – Twitter’s approach to feature testing
- Rogue Startups #122: Rethinking How You Test Your SaaS App with Andrew Culver – the podcast that convinced Charles of the benefits of automated testing in some cases
- Test Automation Using Perl – the online course Charles used to learn software testing in Perl
- WWW::Mechanize – the Perl module used for automating web browsing
- Test::More – the Perl module used for software testing
- Perl Testing: A Developer’s Notebook by Ian Langworth and Chromatic – the only paper book Charles could find on software testing in Perl
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