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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
I pour the blue liquid on the red liquid. If it doesn't blow up on my
face, I proceed to turn up the flame under the blue liquid, and so on.
I have very little idea of what I am really doing, I just like the
pretty colors :-)
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
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Super Happy Test Speed (Score:1)
If you want a real rush, get into test-driven development. Write a test, watch it fail, then write the code to make it pass. It's a weird but enjoyable experience to realize "That's all the code I needed to write!"
Re:Super Happy Test Speed (Score:1)
Actually, that's what I'm aiming for. That, or something very like it. I just need to set things up so I can cycle from design to test to code to design to test to code more easily (i.e., all from within my editor and my browser rather than switching and shifting gears ad nauseam).
The individual tests in the modules I've been working on tend to be pretty long, though. Maybe Test::Inline can be convinced to help with that (e.g., let me specify a 'preamble' of setup code that all tests can use). Some