[roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com Newsletter: Unit Tests for Object-Oriented Programs]

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Wed Jul 10 22:12:05 CDT 2002


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The 4th O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 22-26, 2002
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The Perl Conference 6  -- You cannot afford to miss this conference
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Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor,
bringing you the latest goings-on from the world of Perl and our
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* Perl at large.

This month's edition of The Perl Review is available. TPR is now
going bimonthly after this issue, which contains a new golfing
challenge, Dan's look at Parrot BASIC, and an article on Perl design
patterns.

     http://www.theperlreview.com/

With the Open Source Convention (which includes TPC - have you booked?)
fast approaching, it's fun to look back at last year and particularly,
Julian "Supersnail" Cash's fabulous pictures of the Perl community
at play. Take a look!

     http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/
     http://www.spidereyeballs.com/os5/

Damian Conway is coming to Chicago at the end of August to
teach his Data Munging with Perl, Advanced OO Perl, and Practical
Parsing with Perl courses. Check out the Chicago Perl Mongers' web
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* What's new on www.perl.com?

Unit tests are an excellent way to isolate problems with
complicated systems. Unfortunately, one problem with
complicated systems is that they tend to be, well, complicated,
and objects and other data structures can be created in one part
of the code before being used in another unit. This makes it rather
tricky to write unit tests for them. O'reilly author chromatic
explains how he's developed a way to create fake objects for testing
purposes.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/10/tmo.html

Enjoy,

Simon Cozens
simon at oreillynet.com
Managing Editor, www.perl.com

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*** Featured Articles ***

A Test::MockObject Illustrated Example
Test::MockObject gives you a way to create unit tests for
object-oriented programs, isolating individual object and method
behavior

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/10/tmo.html

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Taglib TMTOWTDI
Continuing our look at AxKit tag libraries, Barrie explains the
use of SimpleTaglib and LogicSheets.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/02/axkit.html

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This week on Perl 6 (24-30 June 2002)
Processes, iterators, fun with the Perl 6 grammar and more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/p6pdigest/20020702.html

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Synopsis 5
Confused by the last Apocalypse? Allison Randal and Damian Conway
explain the changes in a more succinct form.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/26/synopsis5.html

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Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 2
Before making any optimizations to mod_perl applications, it's
important to know what you need to be optimizing. Benchmarks are
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http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/19/mod_perl.html

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