[Canberra-pm] [clug] May CLUG Programmers' Special Interest Group meeting
Alex Satrapa
grail at goldweb.com.au
Mon May 9 17:47:21 PDT 2011
On 10/05/2011, at 08:00 , Paul Wayper wrote:
> CLUG Programmers' Special Interest Group Meeting - 12th May 2011
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> Date: 12th May 2011 (Second Thursday of the month)
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> Time: 19:00 - 21:00 (or when it finishes)
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> Currently there are no talks scheduled. Would anyone like to volunteer?
Would anyone be interested in having a Perl unit testing "BOF" session? I'm including the canberra-pm list in case anyone on there isn't on the CLUG list and might be interested in having a natter about Perl testing (at relatively short notice).
I don't profess to be a Perl or testing expert by any means, so for me to give a "talk" would be the blind leading the blind. What I *do* have experience with is:
- basic unit testing using Test::More
- testing shell scripts using Test::Cmd
- employing Test::MockObject to fake interaction with the outside world
- applying TDD (or BDD) to Perl projects
- wrapping this all together under Module::Build
To which end I could easily fill a half hour describing how I assemble a Perl project using Module::Build, employ Test (or Behaviour) Driven Development, and end up with a package that can be installed on a target system.
I don't use Module::Build properly either, but I figure that having other Perlistas around might help to clarify my thinking.
If we do go ahead with this, I'd ask that people coming along bring a favourite Perl project with them so we can try to implement some real & useful tests during the remainder of the PSIG session.
Alex
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